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Date:      Mon, 02 May 2005 14:51:23 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Arne_=5C=22W=F6rner=5C=22=22?= <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x 
Message-ID:  <17336.1115038283@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 May 2005 07:40:07 CDT." <42761FA7.1030500@centtech.com> 

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In message <42761FA7.1030500@centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
>
>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 - [...]

If the disk has bad sectors or other hardware issues, this is not
an atypical result.

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