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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:31 -0500
From:      Alexander Chamandy <bsdfreak@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk I/O slower then linux?
Message-ID:  <f420b2a10412141023497464c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2ede6f32041214100337b74e30@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2ede6f32041214100337b74e30@mail.gmail.com>

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It looks like this is a problem unique to 5.3:

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/041009.html

May I ask how your partitions are laid out?

Are you running with softupdates enabled on your filesystems?




On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:03:48 -0500, Rae Kim <z49x2vmq@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently changed to FreeBSD 5.3 from Gentoo linux.
> 
> It looks like FreeBSD outperforms gentoo.
> 
> I feel 'some' KDE applications runs at least 3 times faster on
> FreeBSD. ( gentoo was even prelinked)
> 
> However, Disk IO seems too slow compare to linux.
> 
> What makes FreeBSD so fast? Why is disk io slower? How can I make it faster?
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