Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:57:08 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting speed benchmarks Message-ID: <20070130075708.GB892@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <17854.27369.656331.328734@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20070126224352.GD927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <17854.27369.656331.328734@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-Jan-29 16:45:13 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >huff@>>dump 0 -D /tmp/DF -Lau -f /dev/null /usr >& /tmp/null_dump I'd drop the '-u' and '-D' and add a '-C'. When sizing the cache, take into account that each dump subprocess (typically around 5) will allocate that much RAM. >huff@>>cat /tmp/null_dump =2E.. > DUMP: DUMP: 27485576 tape blocks on 1 volume > DUMP: finished in 13818 seconds, throughput 1989 KBytes/sec That is not good. Presumably the dmesg output looks sane (ie it's not running narrow SCSI-1) and dd (or similar) report decent thruput. Can you provide some more details on the FS? What are the block and frag sizes and how many inodes are used? --=20 Peter Jeremy --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFvvpT/opHv/APuIcRAmj/AJ9qz6VFBkeiiNJqMClyBBqWYGxMQwCgsjhg fsAXVq8oVWKk3rVgyTuudao= =ZpKE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
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