On 2008-03-06, Jose Fragoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a straight-forward way to know if write cache is > enabled on a SCSI disk?
# scsi -f /dev/rsd0c -m 8 and look at WCE But I don't think that's your problem. > I installed 4.2 (both i386 and > amd64) on a ibm x-series 336, and a simple mv of src.tar.gz > from a dir to another in the same filesystem takes more > than 10 seconds. What does top say? look at what state mv is in, what cpu% is used in interrupt, whether there's something else running that hits the disks.