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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:48:36 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
To:        Matthias Bartels <mbartels@genie.de>
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: performance problem
Message-ID:  <3BA0B934.7070703@i-clue.de>
References:  <B3005733844@i01sv4107.ids1.intelonline.com>

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Matthias Bartels wrote:

>Servus,
>
>i have a serious performance problem with my harddisk. 
>My Harddisk runs as U/DMA 100 with soft updates enabled.
>
>I used the time command to measure the time that FreeBSD needs to
>extract the actual ports collection (13MB) and it takes over 13 min to
>complete the task. But the user time was less then 1 second!!!
>
>i have the same problem while removing files.
>
>During the execution i used the top command and it figured out that
>the priority is -2 and sometimes -6. is that normal???
>
>the state always switched between getblk and biowr
>
>The CPU idle is near 99%
>
>could anybody help me?
>
I could confirm your times. Anyhow, this is hardware related. On U160 
SCSI hard disks, this job runs significantly faster. (I am not providing 
timing information since the system I checked this was not taken out of 
production for those tests.)

Conclusion: if you want server performance, choose server hardware.

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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