Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:19:00 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199604182119.OAA04063@rah.star-gate.com>
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Fcc: outbox Subject: Re: QUEUE_FULL_ENABLE option really work? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:55:26 PDT." <199604182055.NAA08285@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -------- BTW: Muchas Gracias for the 2940 scsi driver 8) It is working without a hitch over here after I sorted out my scsi termination problems. Not once after the driver fixes and the terimantion problems have my system crashed due to disk failure 8) Regards, Amancio >>> "Justin T. Gibbs" said: > 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 > =========================================== > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== >
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