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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:15:16 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam cam_xpt.c
Message-ID:  <199903220215.TAA63620@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903211744030.1893-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Mar 21, 1999  5:49:45 pm"

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Chuck Robey wrote...
> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> > NCR 53C810 10 MHz 8 bit
> > IBM DCAS-34330 S65A
> >               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
> >               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> > Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> > t=32,qm=0 100  3969 96.7  4435 39.1  1891 21.0  4079 94.5  5754 47.5  84.2  6.6
> > t=32,qm=1 100  3806 93.4  3167 27.4  1899 21.3  3911 91.1  5102 42.0  84.9  6.7
> > t=2,qam=0 100  3889 97.1  5500 45.4  2184 23.2  4125 95.8  5748 47.5  84.1  6.7
> > t=2,qam=1 100  3968 96.6  5408 46.8  2224 24.5  4209 97.6  5403 44.5  74.5  6.1
> > t=1,qam=0 100  3975 96.7  5446 43.8  1875 19.7  4175 97.2  5663 45.3  78.5  6.2
> 
> Huh.  I tried using Ken's camcontrol patches, but when I did that (and
> thus enabled tagged queueing) the drive hung within 10 seconds of
> beginning bonnie.  Now I'm somewhat surprised, because without queueing
> turned on, here's what I get from bonnie:
> 
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
>           100  6229 80.9  6213 34.9  2250 13.5  5711 79.7  6390 25.6 85.2  4.6
> 
> This looks quite a bit better than yours, so I'm wondering if I'd doing
> something to skew the results?  I have a 5400 RPM DCAS 34330W:

Joerg did say that he was doing his test a good ways down the disk (like
80%).  That could easily explain the difference in performance.

> da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <IBM DCAS-34330W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
> da1: Serial Number F3TX1813        
> da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
> da1: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)
> 
> This was on a 100MB bonnie test.

Caching can also explain things, depending on how much RAM you've got in
your system.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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