From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 03:45:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5AB37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.64.14.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B294443FB1 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jstockdale@stanford.edu) Received: from quenya (quenya.Stanford.EDU [128.12.44.61]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3AAiuWk015989 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:44:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "John Stockdale" To: Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:44:28 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01c2ff4e$2a1d7220$3d2c0c80@quenya> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Subject: gbde initialization X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:45:00 -0000 About how quickly should gbde initialize a storage array (say for example, a 700GB ATA-133 Raid 5 array managed by a 3Ware 7500 controller) on a SMP 2.0GHz Xeon box? I assume the initialization time is bounded by the random library used to generate the psudo-random whitener, but I wasn't sure what library is used or how fast that library should run on a 2.0 Xeon. Thanks. -John