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Date:      Mon, 02 May 2005 16:24:07 +0300
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Arne_=5C=22W=F6rner=5C=22=22?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x
Message-ID:  <427629F7.5060704@he.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <17336.1115038283@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <42761FA7.1030500@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
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>>I'll be honest here, I don't care much if the speed difference between 
>>4.X and 5.X is measureable, or whatever.  What I find is a little 
>>telling of an issue somewhere, is that READS are slower than WRITES! 
>>This is totally bogus to me - [...]
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>If the disk has bad sectors or other hardware issues, this is not
>an atypical result.
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>  
>
The drives I have report this using SMART and the counters stay at zero. 
Yes, we've seen the counters go nonzero when problems do exist.

Pete


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