Re: disk I/O slower then linux?

From: Alexander Chamandy (bsdfreak_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/14/04

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    Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:23:31 -0500
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    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@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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