From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 05:17:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECFD37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 05:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp09.wxs.nl (smtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.6.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6608343F3F for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 05:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp09.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HJ700L7F61X90@smtp09.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:15:36 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h76B6HGs001869; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:06:17 +0200 (CEST envelope-from akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h76B6Dfh001868; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:06:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:06:12 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <3226.192.168.1.150.1060117402.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> To: Jason Lieurance Message-id: <20030806110612.GA620@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <2948.192.168.1.150.1060116006.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> <20030805204742.GB88387@dan.emsphone.com> <3226.192.168.1.150.1060117402.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> cc: dnelson@allantgroup.com cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Hard drive performance question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:17:12 -0000 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:03:22PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: > Hello, > > Ok, I guess I thought 14 was high but it's ok then? I'm not sure what is acceptible > but I guess sometimes I thought it would go down instead of always being constant. > So I assumed(ignorantly) that there is a disk i/o problem. > > -- > Jason This sould depend largely on the drive you have. Firstly you have two different speed at wich the drives can turn. And secundly the larger disk pack more Bytes on the same area. So it can write it faster down. At least this wat i was told. -- Alex P.S. Don't top-post - this make you reply harder to place in to the context, and do cut your text!