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From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
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Nope.  3ware 7 drive RAID-5 array as I stated in the original message.

I was thiking about trying it to a single ATA drive, just to see if the
problem was there.


On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 03:02:24PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> wrote:
> > I know.  if I start off with an empty dir, it goes really really fast
> > until I get around 2000-2500 or so.  And then it just gets slower and
> > slower.
> > 
> > If it's samba, I have no idea what.  I'm running a current samba, 
> > pretty much the default config.  On large files I see 12-13MB/second.  
> > 
> > If my switch supported jumbo frames I'm sure it'd be even faster.
> 
> Is this an ATA drive with hw.ata.wc set to 0?
> 
> -- 
> Brian Fundakowski Feldman                           \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\
>   <> green@FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
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