From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 19 16:11:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A4137B405 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25823 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Sep 2001 23:11:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Sep 2001 23:11:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:11:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Matt Dillon Cc: Ian Dowse , , Kirk McKusick , Grigoriy Orlov Subject: Re: dirpref MFC to -stable: patch set to test In-Reply-To: <200109191817.f8JIHAa56883@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20010919181020.F25818-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I noticed something odd while testing it, though. When doing a > 'find /usr/ports -name fubar' on a /usr/ports created w/ dirpref, > I got about 4x the performance as a non-dirpref /usr/ports, but iostat > was showing 600-800 tps with a KB/t of only 1K. In otherwords, the > data was packed more optimally on the disk but FreeBSD was only reading > it in 1K I/O's. I wonder if there is something we can do to improve > that. > > -Matt Give Ian a few weeks, he'll have it done. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message