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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:02:36 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Werner Thie <werner@thieprojects.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MFCard access speed difference between RPi and Beaglebone
Message-ID:  <337A8E96-9B28-4F98-8131-9E68A57B42E3@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <51263322.3030706@thieprojects.ch>
References:  <51263322.3030706@thieprojects.ch>

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On Feb 21, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Werner Thie wrote:

> Hi
>=20
> trying to nail down the crash and core dump in Python when importing =
ctypes I did a parallel build of python on both systems with the same =
SVN rev 246947 of kernel.
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> The RPi seems to beat the Bbone quite clearly with a ration of 6 : 10
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> It is very apparent (when unpacking for instance) that the Bb shows a =
much more pronounced 'hickup' behavior, unpacking 40-60 files and then =
most probably doing disk IO.
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> Swapping the MFCards does not change the situation at all.
>=20
> Can anybody out there suppprt this observation and/or explain it?

I've seen the same behavior with things like SVN checkouts;
the BBone runs quite smoothly for a while and then stalls.

I've been assuming that it was the MMCSD driver; skimming
through the code, it looks like there's a lot of room for
improvement.

Tim




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