Subject: Massive read/write performance problems with 3.0
To: None <port-amd64@netbsd.org>
From: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@bsdprojects.net>
List: port-amd64
Date: 05/07/2006 17:57:43
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Salut,

It seems that disk I/O is massively slow under NetBSD 3.0 on amd64. I am
running it on a DualCore Opteron 175 machine with 2G RAM (Sun Fire X2100),
and when I e.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=/some/ffsv2/path bs=16k count=16k, the
average write speed is around 5 MB/s on a 7.2krpm SATA disk.

Is this a tuning problem or some known bug or do we have to track the
problem down? (It doesn't behave much better on 3.99.18 with the new
BUFQ stuff enabled either) It doesn't appear to be a problem of processing
power, since the processing power used is usually around 1.5% of one CPU.

				Tonnerre

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