From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 18:23:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5B416A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:23:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E0643D67 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfreak@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 1so87265rny for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:23:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=IQ8q8vm5w7Z6sMReXunZN+Mw9IBw//Fa+4UyeXuesb9bJGOgQM82t/CeiqWLWErwc4EqjEw/tHK+TWpWYLuqG4ZVgH8gBLOBG9y3DUHCbQwRtUmfocv8JplRImwMGNJq1S+OgPu6FrNVonHzbosupj0lG0EttWvP3H/3hIAqk7U= Received: by 10.38.179.75 with SMTP id b75mr2241437rnf; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.179.34 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:23:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:31 -0500 From: Alexander Chamandy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2ede6f32041214100337b74e30@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2ede6f32041214100337b74e30@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: disk I/O slower then linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Alexander Chamandy List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:23:32 -0000 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 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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Best wishes, Alexander G. Chamandy Webmaster www.bsdfreak.org Your Source For BSD News!