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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:15:48 +0100
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@D00015.dialonly.kemerovo.su>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: msdosfs serious performance problem with recent 4.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020430181548.GA15756@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020501001235.A792@grosbein.pp.ru>
References:  <20020501001235.A792@grosbein.pp.ru>

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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:12:35AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> What's a reason of very slow writing to msdosfs (FAT32)?
> I get no more than 350Kb/s with recent 4.5-STABLE.
> Writing process spend much time in 'wdrain' state.
> 5.0-DP1 gives me 2Mb/s and more on the same machine.
> 
> If I try to copy from one msdosfs to another msdosfs 
> (both reside on the same drive) I get less than 160Kb/s.

Try making sure you have your hard drives write cache turned on
(hw.ata.wc = 1)

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Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org

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