Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

Amandeep aman at chamkila.org
Mon May 9 11:13:02 PDT 2005


Hi all,

I am using Tyan S2098 MB with 160GB Maxtor ATA  Drive and the transfer 
rate is very low. FreeBSD 5.3-Release.
Any ideas what is going on here.

The transfer rate is about 15MB/s

when I run 

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/junk bs=8192

then do
#iostat 1


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