From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 06:27:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B32716A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2861D43D46 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7B55F81; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:27:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36831-05; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:27:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E9E5F41; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:27:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4372E86B.5020301@mac.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:27:55 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Strauser References: <20051108232855.2d1b7df5.lists@yazzy.org> <437246C5.2030607@elischer.org> <1A496451-166E-46F1-8363-19F117156FEE@mac.com> <200511092237.19062.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200511092237.19062.kirk@strauser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generic Kernel API X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:27:59 -0000 Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 15:23, Charles Swiger wrote: >> Of course, it's easier to say such things then to write the code, but >> Apple has achieved pretty good results from the IOKit. > > I'm really out of my depth here, but the one thing Apple seems to have > accomplished with IOKit is abysmal performance. When it no longer takes me > four times longer to backup an iMac than a much slower FreeBSD machine with > an older drive, I'll be more impressed with their technology. Apple has shipped some really pokey 4200 RPM laptop-oriented drives with their lower-end systems. If that is the case, replacing the OEM drive with a 7200RPM one with 8MB cache would probably help out a lot, and only run about $75-100 depending on the size you want to get. -- -Chuck