Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:38:46 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Issues with AMD64 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20050825213846.GA715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org> 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>
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--3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > >Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting > >for disk reads/writes. >=20 > The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB=20 > Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with the=20 > bad controller on this series of boards. Have you checked (with 'atacontrol mode <channel>') that both drives are indeed using DMA? > Looks like it is the network card. Would disabling that in the BIOS mess= =20 > anything up in FreeBSD? With it disabled I couldn't test the streaming,= =20 > 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. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDjpmEnfvsMMhpyURAphgAKCv1LXPE3XKrU96XQN/e0t6cwQbFgCgj2az BUUHqKttrKgR8dsNI6EDYVE= =3wzr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--
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