Hello! On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Mikhail T. wrote: > I installed a new 500Gb SATA drive into my 6.1 system and am greatly > disappointed with its performance. Although straight reading is > Ok at around 32Mb/s, the writing is never more than 7Mb/s (as reported > by `systat 1 -vm' while running `cat < /dev/zero > /dev/ad8'). This may give you terrible performance due to small (4 Kb) buffer size. Try the following command instead: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m of=/dev/ad8. Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry_at_atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPEReceived on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 08:40:13 UTC
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