Subject: Re: Awful hard drive performance, fine in install
To: Thrashbarg <thrashbarg@kaput.homeunix.org>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/24/2006 11:31:08
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:31:49AM +0930, Thrashbarg wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:27:28AM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:40:25AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0930, Thrashbarg wrote:
> > > >=20
> > > > As can be seen by the dmesg this is a SIS board...
> > >=20
> > > I can't remember offhand, but the install kernel may well not have the
> > > "siside" driver (it would then use "pciide" instead).  Perhaps there =
is
> > > some problem with that driver and your motherboard.
> > >=20
> > > Can you see what happens if you boot -c and disable siside?
> >=20
> > I'd look at vmstat -i output, too.=20
>=20
> What should I be expecting here?

Possibly a very high interrupt rate for a device.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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