Subject: Re: UltraDMA performance.
To: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/02/2001 20:22:56
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:31:48AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> I've been having such low performance with NetBSD 1.5 and -cvs. Maximum 
> transfer rate was about 2MB/s while with Linux was 8-10MB/s. My machine is
> Athlon 900 with ASUS A7V and Quantum Fireball 10lct 30GB Ultra/66.

Ok, how do you measure the 2MB/s ? Do you use softdeps ?
cvs does a lot of directory operation. As linux mounts FS async by default,
this can make a huge difference. Softdep should have the same effect
as async for this, but with reliability :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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