From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 0:48:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from i01sv4107.ids1.intelonline.com (i01sv4107-p.ids1.intelonline.com [147.208.166.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834D937B401 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i01sv4096 (unverified [10.81.26.10]) by i01sv4107.ids1.intelonline.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with SMTP id for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:48:49 +0000 Message-ID: From: Matthias Bartels To: "questions@freebsd.org" X-Originating-IP: [194.95.17.114] Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 8:46:37 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-mailer: AspMail 4.0 4.02 (SMT4DD4B4F) Subject: harddisk performance Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Servus, hi some weeks ago i kicked my linux and became a freebsd user and i am really happy with my decision. But i have still one problem, my harddisk performance. i am using a maxtor U/DMA 100 drive, and freebsd is using U/DMA 100 Kernelmessage: ad0: 38182MB [77578/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 my problem is performance when writing to the disk, that's why i made a benchmark with bonnie this are the results: Machine MB 100 -------Sequential Output----- ----Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU 7628 13.5 8434 5.5 8746 6.9 ---Sequential Input-- -Per Char- --Block--- K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU 42264 100.0 235777 100.0 --Random-- /sec %CPU 27737.9 99.8 as you can see, the reading performance is ok, but writing performance? :( does anybody know what i am doing wrong?? Thank you M.Bartels Ringtones, Logos und crazy Mailbox Ansagen für Dein Nokia-Handy @ www.genie.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message