Makes sense. Moving to plan9port had more to do with making better use of the ReadyNAS in the rack than anything else. The performance was a nice if unexpected side-effect.
On Friday, May 3, 2013, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Fri May 3 23:27:40 EDT 2013, sstall...@gmail.com <javascript:;> wrote: > > > I had originally used a Crucial 32GB SSD years ago and swapped to a 55GB > > OCZ enterprise drive (using sdahci). More recently I've moved my venti > > arenas over to plan9port and have switched over to using the entire SSD > for > > fossil. So far this has been faster than running venti natively - though > I > > still take a replica each night out of paranoia. > > there are many components to the performance here, but i can think of at > least one simple issue. plan 9 loopback tcp can be pretty slow due to > scheduling > issues. (induced by the structure of tcp, not any issue with the > scheduler.) > my atom (which is slightly worse than a d525) gets > > ladd; nettest -l -n 10000 > tcp!192.168.0.136!39769 count 10000; 81920000 bytes in 2.649575 s > @ 29.5 MB/s (0ms) > > so i would imagine that working out how to post a fd to srv would really > help > a lot. not to mention, taking some funk out of configuring the network on > boot. :-) > > - erik > >
