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- From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: ESDI disk performance under 386BSD
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 12:09:06 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1992Aug14.170148.22228@dsuvax.dsu.edu> ghelmer@dsuvax.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) writes:
- # Having been running 386bsd 0.1 on a 25Mhz 386 w/ WD1007V-SE2
- # controller connected to a Wren VI (330Mb) disk and 16Mb of memory,
- # I've noticed that the system seems seriously disk-bound. Any work on
- # the disk drive seems to take forever - mkdir takes a few seconds to
- # execute; extracting a tar file brings the system to a crawl.
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- Something else must be wrong -- I've got a 386-33, WD1007V-SE2,
- Maxtor 8760E (676MB) which is fast as greased lightening -- may
- be some other problem -- do you have enough memory -- maybe the
- system is thrashing in small memory.
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