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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!socs.uts.edu.au!not-for-mail From: Martin Gisch <mgisch@socs.uts.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Hard disk transfer speeds really slow. Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:26:08 -1000 Organization: School of Computing Sciences, UTS Lines: 8 Message-ID: <335D9D70.D63@socs.uts.edu.au> Reply-To: m.g@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39516 I recently set up FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a hard disk, of which the primary partition is used by win95, thats the partition I installed from. During installation I get HD transfer speeds of about 150K/sec! Is that normal? It took about 15 mins to extract the ports collection, and thats only a 3MB tar file. Is there some sort of disk caching available for FreeBSD?