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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!caen!sdd.hp.com!usc!news From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ESDI disk performance under 386BSD Date: 14 Aug 1992 12:09:06 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 12 Sender: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) Message-ID: <l8o16iINN376@neuro.usc.edu> References: <1992Aug14.170148.22228@dsuvax.dsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu In article <1992Aug14.170148.22228@dsuvax.dsu.edu> ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) writes: # Having been running 386bsd 0.1 on a 25Mhz 386 w/ WD1007V-SE2 # controller connected to a Wren VI (330Mb) disk and 16Mb of memory, # I've noticed that the system seems seriously disk-bound. Any work on # the disk drive seems to take forever - mkdir takes a few seconds to # execute; extracting a tar file brings the system to a crawl. Something else must be wrong -- I've got a 386-33, WD1007V-SE2, Maxtor 8760E (676MB) which is fast as greased lightening -- may be some other problem -- do you have enough memory -- maybe the system is thrashing in small memory.