> I grabbed OpenSolaris 2008.05 to see if disk
> performance had gotten any better since my last try,
> which was Solaris 10 (8/07 IIRC). It had, but still
> not good enough.
Here's a follow-up to this problem - on a different computer altogether.
In both cases, Opensolaris 2008.05 was used.
The
> I'm missing the "...DMA mode" messages for the
> P-ATA disks in the /var/adm/messages file.
>
> It should include some messages about the
> data transfer mode used with the P-ATA disk,
> something like
> MultiwordDMA mode X selected
> ltraDMA mode Y selected
> ...
Yup, those are in there;
Thanks for the quick answers! Here's a lot more data:
2GB RAM.
Now, most of this data is pointless - see the opensolaris dmesg to see what I
mean...
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Linux
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exscape ~ # time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
4294967296 bytes
I grabbed OpenSolaris 2008.05 to see if disk performance had gotten any better
since my last try, which was Solaris 10 (8/07 IIRC). It had, but still not good
enough.
I have four disks, three IDE and one SATA. My highly scientific benchmark was:
dd if=/dev/... of=/dev/null bs=128k count=4000
Un
