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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:23:03 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum performance
Message-ID:  <19990618062303.T9893@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <86r9nbq9dp.fsf@not.demophon.com>; from Ville-Pertti Keinonen on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:50:10PM %2B0300
References:  <199906170743.DAA16929@cs.rpi.edu> <19990617183225.Q9893@freebie.lemis.com> <86r9nbq9dp.fsf@not.demophon.com>

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On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 15:50:10 +0300, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
>
> grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes:
>
>>> You've accidentally striped subdisks on the same drive?  ;--)
>>>
>>> Like Greg Lehey said, you haven't really provided enough details.
>>
>> He did provide one detail, though; this is a concatenated plex, not a
>> striped one.
>
> Or he at least *thinks* it's concatenated.  ;--)  I didn't miss that -
> but given numbers that bad, it sounds like there might be some really
> silly mistake involved.

OK, you're the second person to say that.  Let's wait until he comes
back with more details.

>>> Many disks are shipped with write caching disabled, and write
>>> performance can be significantly worse than read performance.
>>
>> Not if it works without Vinum.
>
> My thought was that he might be comparing read performance and write
> performance (they are often pretty close).  But even so, the
> difference shouldn't be *that* big.

I'm sure there's something wrong here.  I'd just like to find out what
it is.  I don't think it's with Vinum, but I'm prepared to be proven
wrong.

Greg
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