I seem to be having some issues with one of the servers I have. There are two SATA drives in the machine, one is SATA II, the other is a HP drive that came with the server, I believe it is a SATA I drive.
When doing any kind of moderate to heavy disk activity, the system slows down considerably. Unzipping tar/gzip archives, copying from a partition on one drive to the other, et cetera. The same machine used to have CentOS 5 on it, and I didn't have any problems like this.
Is there anyway to tune hard drives on FreeBSD like on Linux with hdparm?
I'm currently running bonnie++ to get some benchmarks, but it is taking forever to complete.
The machine is running FreeBSD 7.1, custom kernel with pf/altq compiled in and a lot of unneeded drivers removed, and it's a dual quad core Xeon X5355 (2.66GHz), so I 100% sure that it isn't any type of CPU bottleneck. It happens with the GENERIC kernel also, so I'm sure it isn't a kernel configuration error either?
Thanks in advanced.
When doing any kind of moderate to heavy disk activity, the system slows down considerably. Unzipping tar/gzip archives, copying from a partition on one drive to the other, et cetera. The same machine used to have CentOS 5 on it, and I didn't have any problems like this.
Is there anyway to tune hard drives on FreeBSD like on Linux with hdparm?
I'm currently running bonnie++ to get some benchmarks, but it is taking forever to complete.
The machine is running FreeBSD 7.1, custom kernel with pf/altq compiled in and a lot of unneeded drivers removed, and it's a dual quad core Xeon X5355 (2.66GHz), so I 100% sure that it isn't any type of CPU bottleneck. It happens with the GENERIC kernel also, so I'm sure it isn't a kernel configuration error either?
Thanks in advanced.