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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Performance (at Phoronix)
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> The results:
>>> ata(4) - no NCQ:
>>> Bytes per second: 12455402
>>> Requests per second: 189
>>> ahci(4) - with NCQ:
>>> Bytes per second: 19889778
>>> Requests per second: 303
>>>
>>> Results are repeatable up to the 4-th digit. Average time per request is
>>> 5.29ms and 3.3ms respectively, that seems realistic for this drive.
>>
>> /usr/bin/ministat
> 
> Wheee, it's built by default now :)
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  but it needs to have an option to make it print "bigger is better" or
something..
  So often people just post the output and don't tell you the units, 
or whether left or right is better.