Subject: Re: seemingly dismal performance of NetBSD-1.1A/sun3 file I/O....
To: None <woods@planix.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/1996 11:00:33
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 96 18:52:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
> I've been collecting data for some time now in an attempt to narrow this
> down, but I have not made it much further than my first tests.
>
> It appears that NetBSD-1.1A (~960313), running on a Sun-3/260 with the
> si SCSI disk driver, is much slower than SunOS-4.1.1_U1 on the same
> hardware. It may also be true that NetBSD-1.1A is slower when running
> diskless.
Did you enable DMA and reselect in the SCSI driver?
Gordon