disk I/O slower then linux?

[Alexander Chamandy]

It looks like this is a problem unique to 5.3:

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/041009.html

May I ask how your partitions are laid out?

Are you running with softupdates enabled on your filesystems?




On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:03:48 -0500, Rae Kim <z49x2vmq at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently changed to FreeBSD 5.3 from Gentoo linux.
> 
> It looks like FreeBSD outperforms gentoo.
> 
> I feel 'some' KDE applications runs at least 3 times faster on
> FreeBSD. ( gentoo was even prelinked)
> 
> However, Disk IO seems too slow compare to linux.
> 
> What makes FreeBSD so fast? Why is disk io slower? How can I make it faster?
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