From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 7:39:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0846914C27 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:39:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 19063 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Jan 2000 15:23:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:23:20 +0000 From: George Cox To: Morten Seeberg Cc: Walter Hafner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq RAID controller never in the handbook? Message-ID: <20000117152320.B1743@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <200001150016.QAA02816@mass.cdrom.com> <018601bf6043$6b1f6c40$16280c0a@sos> <003d01bf60e4$a5e6a770$3800a8c0@sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <003d01bf60e4$a5e6a770$3800a8c0@sos>; from ml@seeberg.dk on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 01:16:11PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17/01 13:16, Morten Seeberg wrote: > Well, at the moment I havent had much time to play around with it, but I > am planning some tests, because I really dont think my filesystem is as > fast as expected. Im running on 4 9Gb 10K RPM disks, and except when How are these 4 disks organised? What's ths stripe size? > copying 100+MB files to /dev/null (approx 18Mb / s) i dont get much > faster acx than 2-4Mb / s, which I have seen better (this is on > 3.4-RELEASE). > > Also the searchtime is very slow, and a script like I don't understand what you mean by 'searchtime'. Are you referring to something like find / -name dang-what-did-I-call-it.\* ? If so, you could try 'locate' > /etc/periodic/weekly/310.blabla which I thought would be much faster, > isnt compared to a regular IDE disk. But also normal system usage (this > is my workstation) doesnt seem to have speeded up much. I tried What kind of stuff are you using this for? > experimenting with SOFTOPTIONS, no luck. You mean soft-updates, enabled by adding the line options SOFTUPDATES to your kernel configuration file, and reading the instrutions in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates best; gjvc -- "Readers who only want to see algorithms that are already packaged in a plug-in way, using a trendy language, should buy other people's books." -- D. E. Knuth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message