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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:43:47 +0200
From:      Cheffo <cheffo@FreeBSD-BG.org>
To:        "roma.a.g" <roma.a.g@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slow on heavy I/O operations.
Message-ID:  <46028813.5030209@FreeBSD-BG.org>
In-Reply-To: <1465093066.20070322162026@gmail.com>
References:  <1036039198.20070321153412@gmail.com>	<200703211354.l2LDsKnV080911@lurza.secnetix.de> <1465093066.20070322162026@gmail.com>

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Roman Gorohov. wrote:

-CUT-
> 
> That seems like true, and I forget to mention that 2/3 of swap is
> located at physical disk(da0).
> [idle@hst ~]#swapinfo
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> /dev/da0s1b        524160   463300    60860    88%    Interleaved
> /dev/rvn0b        1048448   578724   469724    55%    Interleaved
> Total             1572608  1042024   530584    66%
> 
> But what I can't understand - why such non-critical(as it seems to me) disk activity,
> cause 100% busyness for disk? Its claim to be 40.000MB/s transfers, but
> sometimes its 100% busy when iostat show only 1 MB/s.
> 
> Regards, Roman.

Imagine 1000 request per second and every request is 1KB,
and compare it with a single request that is 1MB.

In first variant your disk will be 100% busy and in the second 2-3%.
I think you can guess why ?

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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