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.

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