Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-02 Thread DJ Delorie
The test was a simple "hdparm" but the build/boot times scaled accordingly too. ___ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-02 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/02/2013 06:21 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Mbps is not directly relates to IOPS ultimately you could have 16gbps fcp interface but if the storage attached to that is slow without decent caching etc the performance will still be terrible The same disk was used for all the usb tests, and had way

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-02 Thread DJ Delorie
> Mbps is not directly relates to IOPS ultimately you could have > 16gbps fcp interface but if the storage attached to that is slow > without decent caching etc the performance will still be terrible The same disk was used for all the usb tests, and had way more mbytes/sec over eSATA. The iSCSI

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-02 Thread DJ Delorie
> > The fastest disk I/O on trimslice, based on my testing, is via iSCSI > > over the ethernet port. It can do gigE (125MByte/sec) where usb/sata > > on arm seems to be limited to 27 MByte/sec or so (37 MByte/sec on > > intel i7). > > Are you really MB/s rather than IOPS bound? 37 MBytes/sec is

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/02/2013 05:38 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: The fastest disk I/O on trimslice, based on my testing, is via iSCSI over the ethernet port. It can do gigE (125MByte/sec) where usb/sata on arm seems to be limited to 27 MByte/sec or so (37 MByte/sec on intel i7). Are you really MB/s rather than IOPS

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread DJ Delorie
The fastest disk I/O on trimslice, based on my testing, is via iSCSI over the ethernet port. It can do gigE (125MByte/sec) where usb/sata on arm seems to be limited to 27 MByte/sec or so (37 MByte/sec on intel i7). http://www.delorie.com/arm/trimslice/iscsi.html (old) __

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/01/2013 05:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:59:47AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I'm now doing

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 August 2013 11:38, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> > Send me your kingdom... there's now a number of ARM devices with PCI-e >>> > buses, or SATA/NICs plugged directly into the SoC so not hanging off >>> > crappy USB/SPI/GPIO/i2c buses :-D >>> >>> But are the devices Richard has those? >> >> The Tri

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Peter Robinson
>> > Send me your kingdom... there's now a number of ARM devices with PCI-e >> > buses, or SATA/NICs plugged directly into the SoC so not hanging off >> > crappy USB/SPI/GPIO/i2c buses :-D >> >> But are the devices Richard has those? > > The Trim Slice *has* a PCI bus (apparently unusual for ARM).

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Scott Sullivan
On 08/01/2013 12:41 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:59:47AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I know that sev

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:59:47AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen > > wrote: > >> On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >>> I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my C

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim >>> Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim >> Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk >> at the same time, at which point ev

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim > Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk > at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. > I know that several ARMS talk to dis

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/01/2013 03:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. I'm using cheap SanDisk cards in both (not

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:42:53PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim > Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk > at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. > > I'm using cheap S

[fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. I'm using cheap SanDisk cards in both (not exactly sure of the model, but they're the cheapest

Re: [fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

2013-08-01 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim > Slice. It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk > at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt. > > I'm using cheap SanDisk car