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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!news-2.csn.net!usenet From: mlb@csn.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Can geometry affect D. I/O performance? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:41:57 -0700 Organization: SuperNet Inc. +1.303.296.8202 Denver Colorado Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32913A95.17DE@csn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.131.233.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) hello. While the probe at boot correctly identifies the geometry of my IDE drive ( the correct # of clys, hd's etc ), during installation I configured with all 0's [zeros]. My drive I/O seems a bit slow compared to my experiances w/other Intel UNIX's, could my geometry ( or lack there of! ) be causing this? Are there any obvious/ or frequntly tweaked kernel parameters or buffers that I should adjust ( beyond the default )? thx in advance for any tips, Michael Borowski mlb@csn.org