Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 01:52:25 -0400 From: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Amandeep <aman@chamkila.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release Message-ID: <42804C19.1060506@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <427FA802.90805@chamkila.org> References: <427FA802.90805@chamkila.org>
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Amandeep wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using Tyan S2098 MB with 160GB Maxtor ATA Drive and the transfer > rate is very low. FreeBSD 5.3-Release. > Any ideas what is going on here. > > The transfer rate is about 15MB/s > > when I run > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/junk bs=8192 > > then do > #iostat 1 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Check the performance archive for a long thread on disk tweaking. sysctl vfs.read_max=32 should give you a good boost, but read that thread being attempting this. There was another tweak in there I found interesting, but can be dangerous. I'll let you look that one up.
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