On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:18 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > > 
> > > The problem is: FreeBSD is fast, but lacks of some special drivers. Linux 
> > > has 
> > > all drivers but access to harddisk is unpredictable and thus unreliable!
> > > What can I do??
> > 
> > 
> > there's several tunables you can do;
> 
> [...] Well Linux certainly should perform better out of the box
> on such a simple configuration.

no argument from me there; first need to find out which piece is wrong
> 
> Something is wrong especially when the CPU usage is so high.

I'll buy that, yet there's plenty of cpu time available so that
shouldn't be all that much of a limit on the throughput... there's still
headroom

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