SATA DVD speed's too slow (Modified by Joshua Isom)

Redirected from freebsd-questions after no reply. I currently have an SATA DVD-RW drive for my computer. I have to boot using a CURRENT kernel to get the drive recognized, and dmesg lists it as running at 3.3MB/s. Running mplayer -dumpstream gets around 3 megs a second. Copying off a data d

Re: Some FreeBSD performance Issues

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:36:32AM -0800, Randall Hyde wrote: >To answer a different question in the thread, I'm pretty sure I'm making >only one FreeBSD call per byte, at least in one of the cases I posted. How about using ktrace or similar to confirm this. >I wonder if I'm only getting one char