Subject: Re: Awful hard drive performance, fine in install
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Thrashbarg <thrashbarg@kaput.homeunix.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/25/2006 01:31:49
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:
> > > 
> > > As can be seen by the dmesg this is a SIS board...
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Can you see what happens if you boot -c and disable siside?
> 
> I'd look at vmstat -i output, too. 
> 
> -- 
> 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.

What should I be expecting here?