From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 09:16:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F88106564A for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADC38FC20 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:16:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTuvE-0004rm-UU for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:16:52 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:16:52 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:16:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:16:30 +0100 Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: <6612C205-C346-4493-9DA4-3B5A73E9A4F7@freebsd.org> <9C533E30-BD08-4938-8D1A-5CE046FB6BF6@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7780B08CA2E76E7BDD8B1A81" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: <9C533E30-BD08-4938-8D1A-5CE046FB6BF6@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Performance numbers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:16:53 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7780B08CA2E76E7BDD8B1A81 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric Anderson wrote: >=20 > On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: >=20 >> Eric Anderson wrote: >>> Hi GEOMers! >>> >>> Does anyone have any benchmarks or numbers relating to GEOM performan= ce? >>> >>> I tried doing some on my own, but I didn't get very satisfactory >>> results, so I'm curious what others have seen or used. >>> >>> My hardware is a Core 2 Quad, with 4GB of ram. >>> >>> First, I made an mdconfig'ed malloc backed 'disk' of 1.5GB. Then, I >>> tried running such tools as rawio, and diskinfo. rawio fails with >>> input/output errors, and diskinfo wants a larger device to give the f= ull >>> stats. I ended up using purely dd since that worked. Interestingly >>> enough, dd'ing to the malloc device results in about 1000 operations = per >>> second, regardless of a blocksize of 512bytes or 1MB. >> >> It's a good idea for testing. >> >> 1000 ops/s looks suspiciously like HZ, though I don't know why HZ woul= d >> influence GEOM (AFAIK context switches between threads, including GEOM= >> threads do not depend on it) - can you try ruling out HZ? >=20 > Is there a way to pump the data through the GEOM layers without doing a= > mdconfig'd disk? You could use gzero, it ignores written data and produces read data with memset. > Also, are you thinking setting the hz to some other setting, and > rerunning? What setting were you thinking? I can easily try anything.= Yes. Try 1500. --------------enig7780B08CA2E76E7BDD8B1A81 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJhrn1ldnAQVacBcgRAu52AKC8+YGgRqwX2VqbKBRuWkyZGyXK/gCePlbG g2btQr41+24k12240RbxxEI= =0tsg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7780B08CA2E76E7BDD8B1A81--