--On Monday, December 03, 2001 11:10:47 +0100 SXren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems Miklos Niedermayer wrote: >> I think they are idle (looking at vmstat -i), but i can't be sure. >> However i have 2 machines here with VIA 82C596 chipset... >> >> atapci0: <VIA 82C596 ATA66 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 >> on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 >> ad0: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master >> UDMA66 >> >> 524288 bytes transferred in 0.025247 secs (20766367 bytes/sec) >> >> It's idle (the LED isn't blinking after/before dd and vmstat -i doesn't >> show any ata0 activity). >> >> Even my Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller with the same disk performs better >> (a little)... > > Hmm, yes that looks somewhat on the low side... > Well, two things, the older VIA chips are not the best performers, but > I still think it should be better than that, I'll run some tests here, > I might have messed up something... > Are we talking -current or -stable here ? I'm getting even worse performance. root@lobster# for n in 1 2 3 4 5 do dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=512k count=1 done 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 524288 bytes transferred in 0.056385 secs (9298353 bytes/sec) 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 524288 bytes transferred in 0.062027 secs (8452580 bytes/sec) 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 524288 bytes transferred in 0.056339 secs (9305947 bytes/sec) 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 524288 bytes transferred in 0.056325 secs (9308271 bytes/sec) 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 524288 bytes transferred in 0.056482 secs (9282398 bytes/sec) root@lobster# atapci0: <Intel ICH2 ATA100 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 31.1 on pci0 ad0: 58644MB <IBM-DTLA-307060> [119150/16/63] at ata0-master tagged UDMA100 Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message