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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:12:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net>
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:  <20050825151032.A88957@devel.cotharyus.net>
In-Reply-To: <430E294C.2080207@mkproductions.org>
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mark Kane wrote:

>> Hmm, if bzip2 can't saturate the CPU, I would say it's probably waiting
>> for disk reads/writes.
>
> The drives I was trying to compress from/to are both brand new 200GB Maxtor 
> 7200RPM ATA133 drives. Maybe that has something to do with the bad controller 
> on this series of boards.


Are both of these drives on the same channel? If so, remember that ATA 
cannot read/write to two drives on the same channel at the same time.



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