Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread jason henson
Amandeep wrote: 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 _

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Peter Kieser
ad0: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133 su-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=8192 count=3 3+0 records in 3+0 records out 24576 bytes transferred in 4.090394 secs (60082231 bytes/sec) ad0: 239372MB [486344/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133 su-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 9 May 2005 14:02:45 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hackers you wrote: > >Yes, try 64k instead of 8k, and also compare read speeds. If you have >the time (could take an hour or so), try "dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null >bs=64k", run an "iostat 60" in another window, let the dd run through >the

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 09 May 2005 11:26:39 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hackers you wrote: >Hi Eric, > > >Shouldnt it be around 54MB/s for a regular IDE drive. As I did a [releng5-865]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=8192 count=3 3+0 records in 3+0 records out 24576 bytes transferred in 4

Re: files refused to delete

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 10 May 2005 02:00, Maslan wrote: > here is the output of fsck : > > ** /dev/ad0s3a (NO WRITE) If it's mounted read/write you will get inconsistent result on an fsck. Try doing it in single user mode. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 09), Eric Anderson said: > > Eric Anderson wrote: > >> Amandeep wrote: > >>> 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 15M

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread John Von Essen
I think in summary, though, the end result is that the 15 Megabytes/sec that Amandeep was getting is normal. -john On Mon, 9 May 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: > John Von Essen wrote: > > Actually, using a variety of Maxtor drives, I don't think I have ever > > gotten anything better then 11.5 Megab

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Eric Anderson
John Von Essen wrote: Actually, using a variety of Maxtor drives, I don't think I have ever gotten anything better then 11.5 Megabytes/sec - and this was on boards with ATA-100. About a year ago I had several Tyan S2099's with a 40Gb Seagate, and was doing drive duplications with dd and a FreeBSD b

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Eric Anderson
> Eric Anderson wrote: > >> Amandeep wrote: >> >>> 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

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread John Von Essen
Actually, using a variety of Maxtor drives, I don't think I have ever gotten anything better then 11.5 Megabytes/sec - and this was on boards with ATA-100. About a year ago I had several Tyan S2099's with a 40Gb Seagate, and was doing drive duplications with dd and a FreeBSD boot CD. Again, 11 Meg

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Warner Losh
> But he is getting over 100 megabits per second! ata100 is 100M*B*/s, not 100Mb/s. However, unless you are reading out of the cache of the drive, you'll get a much lower speed (on the order of 10-20MB/s I think from that generation of disks). Warner _

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Amandeep
Hi Eric, Shouldnt it be around 54MB/s for a regular IDE drive. Here is the output of dmesg and iostat Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Erik Udo
But he is getting over 100 megabits per second! Anyway, i'm getting 50~60MB/s on my ad0: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133 So i think 15MB/s is a little slow. John Von Essen wrote: That sounds about right! You weren't expecting to get 100Mb/s were you?? -john On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ama

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread John Von Essen
That sounds about right! You weren't expecting to get 100Mb/s were you?? -john On Mon, 9 May 2005, Amandeep wrote: > 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 ra

Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread Amandeep
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 ___

Re: files refused to delete

2005-05-09 Thread Maslan
here is the output of fsck : ** /dev/ad0s3a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 2671 files, 44960 used, 1937879 free (7

ffs snapshots

2005-05-09 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Hi, I was wondering why the limit for file system snapshots in BSD 5 has been set to 20. Is it a limitation due to the way this feature has been implemented? -Siddharth. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

EuroBSDCon 05 - Call for Papers

2005-05-09 Thread Max Laier
EuroBSDCon 2005 - Call for Papers 4th European BSD Conference November 25 - 27, 2005 University of Basel, Switzerland http://www.eurobsdcon.org/ Introduction The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) family of comput