From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 14:54:45 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2C9C48336 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3E0AF28 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com (unknown [85.199.232.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9CA3420B3 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/9CA3420B3; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: testing SSD performance To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <9966b2a4-8812-3de1-8a9e-05bc96c8ef3c@kukulies.org> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <36c4714c-f1ba-527e-b4e2-04072d1be9f9@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:54:17 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9966b2a4-8812-3de1-8a9e-05bc96c8ef3c@kukulies.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qLsr3haj2ailg3vjUP54lO5ng3j4frFvw" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE, SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:54:45 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --qLsr3haj2ailg3vjUP54lO5ng3j4frFvw Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="dxkV5v3LcCv8BjSjPqvbtkI7PKgWgcLdS"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <36c4714c-f1ba-527e-b4e2-04072d1be9f9@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: testing SSD performance References: <9966b2a4-8812-3de1-8a9e-05bc96c8ef3c@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <9966b2a4-8812-3de1-8a9e-05bc96c8ef3c@kukulies.org> --dxkV5v3LcCv8BjSjPqvbtkI7PKgWgcLdS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/18/16 14:37, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: > I was running an older FreeBSD (9.2) for quite a while now with the roo= t > FS (and swap) an an SSD drive (100GB). >=20 > While upgrading the system to 11.0 and while observing quit elong > buildworld times I'm wondering myself if my SSD possibly might have > gotten degraded > some extent. I've read that SSD tend to run slow on writes over time, > especially when no provisions were taken to e.g. fill them up just up t= o > 2/3 of their max capacity to leave room for firmware storage management= =2E >=20 >=20 > Is there a quick tool to test overall performance (disk i/o and > processor overall system speed)? >=20 bonnie++ will give you some performance stats, although without a set of measurements on a new SSD to compare, its utility is likely to be limited= =2E The other utility that may be of use to you is smartmontools -- this will be able to tell you how much wear you've put on your device. You'll want to look for 'Media Wearout Indicator' or 'Wear Levelling Count' depending on the manufacturer. The other reason for long buildworlds is not having a great deal of RAM. C-compilation is both quite memory intensive in itself, and also does a lot of file-io, so having plenty of RAM available for filesystem caching will help a lot. 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