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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:41:26 -0700
From:      Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
To:        Richard Wendland <richard@netcraft.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD random I/O performance issues
Message-ID:  <20000322004126.A82200@area51.v-wave.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003220022.AAA28786@ns0.netcraft.com>; from richard@netcraft.com on Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:22:42AM %2B0000
References:  <38D6BBD7.DA4B950B@originative.co.uk> <200003220022.AAA28786@ns0.netcraft.com>

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:22:42AM +0000, Richard Wendland wrote:
> Any views gratefully received.  A fix would be much better :-)

Not sure if my meager setup helps any, but in the interests in providing
results to help the cause so-to-speak, I ran the test on my own machine
(followed the instructions in the source file to the letter):

(/tmp)[13]# time ./seekreadwrite xxx 10000

real    0m4.462s
user    0m0.018s
sys     0m1.204s


Hardware information:

FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #4: Thu Mar 16 15:15:07 MST 2000

CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU)

real memory  = 134217728 (131072K bytes)

atapci1: <HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller> port
0xe000-0xe0ff,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807 irq 4 at device 19.0 on pci0
ata2: at 0xd800 on atapci1
atapci2: <HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller> port
0xec00-0xecff,0xe800-0xe803,0xe400-0xe407 irq 4 at device 19.1 on pci0
ata3: at 0xe400 on atapci2

ad4: 12416MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A> [25228/16/63] at ata2-master
using UDMA66

/dev/ad4s2f on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates, writes: sync 19 async
10197, reads: sync 169 async 0)

(/tmp)[19]# sysctl -a | grep -i vfs.write_behind
vfs.write_behind: 1

Mem: 58M Active, 29M Inact, 24M Wired, 4248K Cache, 11M Buf, 8860K Free
Swap: 257M Total, 257M Free

12:36AM  up 1 day,  9:54, 7 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.04, 0.01

The HDD is a 5400RPM ATA-66 drive (to state the obvious) this test was
conducted while I was in X (su'd to root) so there was some load on the
machine. Hope this helps in some way.


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