From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 27 16:22:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BB814ECD for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ppp-1-79.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.132.79]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA26743 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:22:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA01825 for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:24:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:24:07 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2-R Disk Performance Woes Message-ID: <19990627192407.A1735@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When copying directory trees between two IDE drives on the PCI bus, the system really dogs down -- emacs takes 15 seconds to come up when normally it takes 1 -- didn't do that on 3.0-RELEASE. I have these drives configed up for DMA: controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0xa0ffa0ff disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 These are stock IBM Deskstar drives: wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd1: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S Any thoughts? Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message