disk I/O slower then linux?

[Alexander Chamandy]

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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/thread.html#40671

Are you using the same mainboard?  There's a lot of good advice given
in that thread.  A couple of things I would suggest is try to tweak
your kernel if you're running a generic binary that may decrease your
performance a bit.  If you *are* using the same mainboard it may be an
issue of an unreliable storage controller.  See if your BIOS is up to
date and also paste a dmesg to the list and put in any more hardware
specifications you can for good measure.



On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:27:57 -0500, Rae Kim <z49x2vmq at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use 40GB hard
> with
> ad0s1 Windows XP 14GB
> ad0s2 FAT32            10GB
> rest of partistions are set  automatically by installer.(1GB swap)
> and softupdates is enabled
> 
> anyways, it looks like a problem of 5.3 release.
> 
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:31 -0500, Alexander Chamandy
> <bsdfreak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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