From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 18:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f210.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86A837B407 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:21:15 -0700 Received: from 12.93.45.212 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 01:21:15 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.93.45.212] From: "Terry Witherspoon" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Very slow disk io on P3 with FreeBSD 4.1 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:21:15 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2001 01:21:15.0652 (UTC) FILETIME=[D9B33440:01C155E0] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've a Pentium III box with 4.1 installed. Disk IO on this machine is abnormally slow. Fsck'ing a gigabyte partition may take 45 minutes. Backups are also extremely slow. I installed a second disk on second IDE controller with only a large filesystem and backup partitions on controller 1 to 2 in single user mode. It takes about an hour to copy 2 gigs of backups to the new drive. The machine is an IBM P3 workstation. Is it possible I've some weird disk conflict? I see no error messages in my log files. The disk drive is a Maxtor 52049H4. Again the only problems I've had is very sluggish IO. Thanks for any advice. tw _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message