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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:55:26 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, gibbs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: QUEUE_FULL_ENABLE option really work? 
Message-ID:  <199604182055.NAA08285@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:01:06 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.92.960418125843.19574E-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> 

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The option is QUEUE_FULL_SUPPORTED and it does what its supposed to.
It increases the number of tags allowed per device to 4 instead of
the default of two.

>I just turned it off on a box with a 2940, and across the board I'm
>picking up 700-800k/s improvements:
>
>old:
>
>IOZONE performance measurements:
>        1168024 bytes/second for writing the file
>        4445767 bytes/second for reading the file
>
>
>new:
>
>IOZONE performance measurements:
>        1790285 bytes/second for writing the file
>        5332448 bytes/second for reading the file

But your random I/O scores will decrease since the drive will only
have at max two I/Os to sort in order to reduce seeks.  If you're
only interested in sequential I/O, you might as well turn off
tagged queueing since for some devices you will get better results.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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