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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:41:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.cisco.com>
To:        dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: writing slower with SoftUpdates
Message-ID:  <199904222241.SAA96017@misha.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990422172744.A51036@dan.emsphone.com> from Dan Nelson at "Apr 22, 1999 05:27:44 pm"

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Dan Nelson once wrote (regarding iozone reporting ~10% slower results
with SoftUpdates, compared to without -- sync mount):

> > WCE was ON on both drives:
> > 
> > Checking SCSI drives for write-cache:
> > <SEAGATE ST39102LW 0006>           at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
> > <SEAGATE ST39102LW 0006>           at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (pass1,da1)

> > I disabled WCE on both and re-ran the iozone tests. No noticable
> > changes from the previous numbers... What really bothers me, is the
> > fact that reading speed speed is consistently only 13-14Mb/s on one
> > disk, while it is 17-18 (same as writing) on the other. Can it be,
> > that one of the partitions I'm trying this on is /tmp (the other is
> > /var/tmp)? There are no files in either one of them and they are of
> > the same size and offset on two identical disks.
 
> The different mountpoint shouldn't make any difference. I guess you
> could dump the bad-block table for both drives, and see if your slower
> disk has more relocated blocks than the faster one. "camcontrol
> defects -u 0 -f block" will dump the blocklist.
 
(pass0:ahc0:0:8:0): READ DEFECT DATA(10). CDB: 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 fd e8 0 
(pass0:ahc0:0:8:0): RECOVERED ERROR asc:1c,0
(pass0:ahc0:0:8:0): Defect list not found field replaceable unit: 18 sks:ca,2

> If you still can't find the problem, try asking in the freebsd-scsi
> mailinglist.

CC-ed there. The machine is 350MHz PentumII with 128Mb of 100MHz RAM.
The disks are LVD being the only targets on the LVD outlet of Adaptec
2940U2W.

	-mi


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