[Oberon] Oberon / Aos disk performance

Thomas Frey frey at inf.ethz.ch
Thu Aug 14 02:56:33 CEST 2003


> AosFS it's great on cache. Congratulations.
> But writing and the first time reading it's a pain. Am I missing 
> something ? Is it anything else to adjust for better performance ?
It depends a great lot on the harddisk controller. Check the Kernel-Log 
for "PIO" in the init message of the driver. If you see PIO, the driver 
is running in some compatibility mode, that can be about 10x slower than 
a fully supported controller.

--Thomas





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