Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:18:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UPDATE: FreeBSD 4.3 --> pits Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106232314150.421-100000@debian> In-Reply-To: <3B33AD59.354B4DD9@urx.com>
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: :) :) :)"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: :)> :)> Cheese... If people would READ the posts instead of accusing the :)> posters of bashing FBSD. FBSD is my O/S of choice on my home PC. :)> I have been using it since 3.5 and have had absolutely no problems :)> until I loaded 4.3. :)> <SNIP> :)> :)> The whole install of 4.2 with XFree86, Gnome, KDE, and other selected :)> packages took less than an hour. :)> :)> Again I'm not BASHING FBSD, I'm only trying to find out why 4.3 is such :)> a dog on my home PC. :) :)They turned off write caching on IDE drives for one thing. My buildworld :)time log shows the difference. For example, :) :)buildworld -j8 :)1649.700u 679.762s 41:23.96 93.7% 1283+1449k 45479+3468io :)1642pf+0w :)1653.885u 677.372s 41:17.73 94.0% 1285+1449k 46791+3418io :)1609pf+0w :)buildworld -j6 :)1601.699u 657.196s 29:00.09 129.8% 1314+1472k 43718+3411io :)3248pf+0w :)1606.729u 640.580s 29:00.13 129.1% 1321+1483k 43964+3408io :)3284pf+0w :)buildworld -j8 :)1598.496u 642.897s 28:55.45 129.1% 1322+1483k 44354+3431io :)3289pf+0w :) :)The first two were when write caching was turned off and the last three :)were after it was turned back on as a default. :) :)Kent Thanks Kent. I added hw.ata.wc="1" to the /etc/defaults/loader.conf file and I seem to be back in business. Why on earth did FBSD 4.3 change this default? I would hazard a guess that a lot of people were hit with this one. The average "off the shelf" PX has EIDE/IDE drives. NOW... if I could only figure out how to let normal users use startx. -=[cwa]=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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