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Date:      17 Jun 1999 11:52:43 +0300
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
To:        crossd@cs.rpi.edu (David E. Cross)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum performance
Message-ID:  <86so7rqkdg.fsf@not.demophon.com>
In-Reply-To: crossd@cs.rpi.edu's message of "17 Jun 1999 10:43:31 %2B0300"
References:  <199906170743.DAA16929@cs.rpi.edu>

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crossd@cs.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) writes:

> I have a drive that is rated at ~16 Meg/second, and indeed it delivers on the
> order of 15+ Meg/second.  If I use Vinum to create a concatinated device
> of 2 such units performance drops to 2.5 Meg/sec.  This seems like a 
> drastic drop in performance.  Any ideas what I am doin incorrectly?

You've accidentally striped subdisks on the same drive?  ;--)

Like Greg Lehey said, you haven't really provided enough details.  The
minimum info required would be:

 - Is this read or write performance?

Many disks are shipped with write caching disabled, and write
performance can be significantly worse than read performance.  It
shouldn't be quite *that* bad, though, I get better write performance
with slower disks, write caching disabled and mirroring (with the
default 3.2 vinum - which has debugging compiled in, look at the bss
size...).

 - Are you testing through the filesystem?  (How are you testing?)

Maybe you're doing a dd test and accessing /dev/vinum/vol/* rather
than /dev/vinum/rvol/*...


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