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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:23:03 +0800
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@D00015.dialonly.kemerovo.su>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   ata performance degradation & msdosfs
Message-ID:  <20020420002303.A213@grosbein.pp.ru>

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Hi!

My 4.5-STABLE (15 Apr 2002) has a problem writing to msdosfs:
I try 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dos/c/temp bs=1m' and get 350K/s,
dd spends much time in 'wdrain' state.
I have also 5.0-DP1 installed in the next slice and it has not this problem:
I get >7.5Mb/s for massive writing to msdosfs.

This system has Iwill BD100+ motherboard, ata33 controller:

atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0

FreeBSD slices reside on IBM 40G hard drive,
msdosfs lives on WD 6.4 hard drive:

ad0: 6149MB <WDC AC26400B> [13328/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad2: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231> at ata0-slave PIO4
acd1: CD-RW <SONY CD-RW CRX140E> at ata1-slave UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a

No activity on acd[01] while testing, the system is idle.

Feel free to ask more information, I'd like help to resolve this.
I've seen large performance degradation while writing to msdosfs some
times before. This effect appeared and disappeared several times during
4-STABLE lifetime. Some time ago I've seen 30K/s writing speed and
general system lockups while writing using some other hardware with
more early 4-STABLE. And that was msdosfs issue, too.

Eugene Grosbein

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