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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!uunet!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.1.5??? Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 12:51:16 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <hkwufC8.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2t3s69$bv6@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <5y+N-2j.dysonj@delphi.com> <mldCr4CIy.GEE@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1a.delphi.com X-To: Matthew Deter <mld@netcom.com> Matthew Deter <mld@netcom.com> writes: >I ran the iozone tests and got about 1.2 Meg/s (with peaks much >higher) on my 1542 with a Maxtor 540SL. The writes were 660k/sec or >so. I thought it was the disk (altho it seemed a bit odd to me.) Are >you saying that 1.1.5 will speed this up? (that's cool) The speed problem that you are having might be related to both the lack of clustering and a slightly suboptimal newfs command usage. The ufs defaults were chosen for old hardware that needed interleaving, etc. A better newfs command might be: newfs -d 0 -n 1 -a 4 sd0a The -a 4 might not be needed -- but sometimes I am religious about these things. The clustering will help too -- but not much if your disk isn't set up for it. John