From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 15 10:24:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from navgwout.symantec.com (navgwout.symantec.com [198.6.49.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744CA37B40E for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from navgwout.symantec.com (navgwout [198.6.49.12]) by navgwout.symantec.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA26347 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailer.symantec.com ([198.6.49.176]) by navgwout.symantec.com (NAVGW 2.5.1.13) with SMTP id M2001101510241326432 ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:24:13 -0700 Received: from uscu-smtp02.symantec.com (uscu-smtp02.symantec.com [155.64.74.114]) by mailer.symantec.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12809; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Severe I/O Problems To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.8 June 18, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Jay Rossiter" Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:21:35 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on USCU-SMTP02/SYMSMTP(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 10/15/2001 10:16:58 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dmesg: atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31= .1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ad0: 38146MB [77504/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: DVD-ROM at ata1-master using PIO4 sysctl: hw.ata.ata_dma: 1 hw.ata.wc: 0 hw.ata.tags: 0 hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 hw.atamodes: dma,---,pio,---, mount: /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1d on /home (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1h on /usr/ports (ufs, asynchronous, local) /dev/ad0s1g on /usr/src (ufs, asynchronous, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local) All of the data work for this project is taking place on /home The writecache flag appeared as though it was going to help significant= ly, however the total run took about five hours longer than previous. (~21= hours) Start: Fri Oct 12 15:16:35 PDT 2001 Stop: Sat Oct 13 12:28:40 PDT 2001 = = =20 Mikko = = =20 Tyolajarvi To: jrossiter@symantec.com= = =20 Subject: Re: Severe I/O Pr= oblems = =20 = = =20 10/12/2001 = = =20 05:25 PM = = =20 = = =20 = = =20 In local.freebsd.hackers you write: >There appear to be a lot of changes that went into the filesystem and = I/O >code between 4.3 and 4.4. A little over a week ago I upgraded my 4.3 = box >to 4.4-STABLE and immediately I started having I/O slowdown. I do >development and QA on a program that is very I/O bound, but the change= s >between 4.3 and 4.4 aren't small enough that I can ignore them. >A few statistics: >BSD, P4 1.4GHz, ATA100 drives >- Normal test run on 4.3 was taking ~3 hours. >- Normal test run on 4.4 is taking 15-16 hours. >P3-800, ATA66 drives, SuSE Linux 7.1: >- Normal test run takes ~4.5 hours. >UltraSparc 10, Solaris 8, ATA66 drives: >- Normal test run takes ~6 hours. >As you can see, this jump was just phenomenal. Yup, sure looks bad. Post output from at least: % dmesg | grep ata % sysctl -a | grep ata % mount | grep ufs to give people something more to go on. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurit= y.com RSA Security = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message