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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:12:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, gibbs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: QUEUE_FULL_ENABLE option really work? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960418151140.314E-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199604182055.NAA08285@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Hmmm, well, my bonnie numbers didn't change much at all, and i was getting
"QUEUE Full" messages on my console, which have disappeared.  Now if I can
get rid of the FS corruption on my 2940UW, I'll be a happy camper. (From
another message).

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> 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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