Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:44:59 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <430E3BDB.5040600@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <20050825213846.GA715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <430D3823.9070301@mkproductions.org> <20050825160909.GB10134@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430DF015.5000203@mkproductions.org> <20050825173758.GA10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E0461.3030101@mkproductions.org> <20050825181931.GE10790@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E105D.3080509@mkproductions.org> <20050825200838.GA18166@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org> <20050825213846.GA715@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote: > Have you checked (with 'atacontrol mode <channel>') that both drives are > indeed using DMA? amd64# atacontrol mode 0 Master = UDMA133 [200GB w/ FreeBSD] Slave = BIOSPIO amd64# atacontrol mode 1 Master = BIOSPIO Slave = PIO4 [Sony DRU500A DVD+RW] amd64# atacontrol mode 4 Master = UDMA133 [200GB Storage] Slave = BIOSPIO amd64# atacontrol mode 5 Master = UDMA133 [160GB Storage] Slave = BIOSPIO amd64# atacontrol mode 6 Master = UDMA133 [80GB Storage] Slave = BIOSPIO amd64# atacontrol mode 7 Master = UDMA133 [80GB Storage] Slave = BIOSPIO >>Looks like it is the network card. Would disabling that in the BIOS mess >>anything up in FreeBSD? With it disabled I couldn't test the streaming, >>but could try playing files. > > > I don't really see how, other than having no network. :-) > > If you have a spare machine, you could even try the 6.0 beta release, > and see if that solves the problem. Okay, I may try that later then. STABLE is just about done on that Athlon XP 2000+ machine. As for 6.0, I did try it on another drive when I was still troubleshooting the DMA stuff. It however introduced new problems such as panics and my ethernet controller was no longer recognized. -Mark
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