From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 10:12:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135E437BD01 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([216.88.157.130]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA14259; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:42:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00684; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:12:01 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Smith Cc: fbsd-dave , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum stats and question(addendum) Message-ID: <20000321101201.B478@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <20000320122326.I2898@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003210437.UAA18429@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003210437.UAA18429@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>; from msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:37:39PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 20:37:39 -0800, Mark Smith wrote: >> Right, but that's not the problem here. rawio doesn't do any file >> I/O, though I should probably add some options for it. I'm puzzled by >> the slow sequential write performance. Is it possible that you (Mark) >> are doing this with FreeBSD 3.x? In that case, you're running the >> disk tests against the block device, which caches. Use /dev/rda1s2e >> and /dev/rda2s2e and things will be more comparable. > > Yah, 3.4R straight off the CD. > > OK. I'll give that a whirl next. > > I did try oddball stripe size numbers like 200b, 10090b and 20090b and > still got the same bonnie and rawio numbers. As I mentioned before, rawio doesn't try to emulate ufs (yet). And bonnie is pretty vague at the best of times. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message