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Date:      Sun, 12 Mar 1995 23:35:34 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu
Subject:   Re: Things are looking up :-) 
Message-ID:  <199503130735.XAA29201@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Mar 95 17:06:30 PST." <199503130106.RAA05211@geli.clusternet> 

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>And I just built the world in 5 hours, much improved from the 11+ of
>the last weeks.  Thanks guys!  Here's the ouput from time make world:
>
>    19459.88 real     13019.40 user      3573.39 sys
>
>ncr bonnie benchmark performance is possibly mending a bit, too:
>
>              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>Sys Date   MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
>021095    100  3145 96.0  3832 30.9  1630 21.0  3230 95.2  4231 36.8  81.0  7.0
>030195    100  2563 91.2  3410 35.3  1513 25.5  2812 88.8  3735 39.4  70.7  8.2
>030395    100  2438 83.4  3142 30.2  1466 23.6  2916 91.0  3716 38.6  62.7  7.1
>030495    100  2275 84.0  2609 27.3  1400 26.1  2693 88.0  3538 41.6  63.1  7.4
>031295    100  2346 86.8  2924 33.4  1491 28.0  2761 90.2  3877 45.4  67.6  7.7
>
>Things are definitely a lot mellower in my drive bays now that the chatterbug
>is vanquished.  It's hard to overstate how appreciative I am...

   Thanks. Everyone should change their minfree on their filesystems to 8%. In
our current code, 5% will cause the system to use 'space' optimization all the
time which is very CPU intensive. Use the command "tunefs -m 8 /dev/r..." on
your (unmounted) filesystems to change it.

-DG



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