From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 18:35:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8075E16A4EB for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 18:35:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8D843DAF for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 18:35:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j49IVrMf054642; Mon, 9 May 2005 12:31:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 12:31:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20050509.123153.115960241.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, erik.u@dnainternet.net From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <427FABBB.4070605@dnainternet.net> References: <427FA802.90805@chamkila.org> <20050509141507.J19546@beck.quonix.net> <427FABBB.4070605@dnainternet.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 18:35:06 -0000 > But he is getting over 100 megabits per second! ata100 is 100M*B*/s, not 100Mb/s. However, unless you are reading out of the cache of the drive, you'll get a much lower speed (on the order of 10-20MB/s I think from that generation of disks). Warner