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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:27:57 -0500
From:      Rae Kim <z49x2vmq@gmail.com>
To:        Alexander Chamandy <bsdfreak@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk I/O slower then linux?
Message-ID:  <2ede6f320412141027479bb03e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f420b2a10412141023497464c@mail.gmail.com>
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I use 40GB hard
with 
ad0s1 Windows XP 14GB
ad0s2 FAT32            10GB
rest of partistions are set  automatically by installer.(1GB swap)
and softupdates is enabled

anyways, it looks like a problem of 5.3 release.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:31 -0500, Alexander Chamandy
<bsdfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like this is a problem unique to 5.3:
> 
> See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/041009.html
> 
> May I ask how your partitions are laid out?
> 
> Are you running with softupdates enabled on your filesystems?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:03:48 -0500, Rae Kim <z49x2vmq@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've recently changed to FreeBSD 5.3 from Gentoo linux.
> >
> > It looks like FreeBSD outperforms gentoo.
> >
> > I feel 'some' KDE applications runs at least 3 times faster on
> > FreeBSD. ( gentoo was even prelinked)
> >
> > However, Disk IO seems too slow compare to linux.
> >
> > What makes FreeBSD so fast? Why is disk io slower? How can I make it faster?
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