Re: Memory allocation performance/statistics patches

2005-04-29 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Robert Watson wrote: I now have updated versions of these patches, which correct some inconsistencies in approach (universal use of curcpu now, for example), remove some debugging code, etc. I've received relatively little performan

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Anderson
Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok some real strange going on write performance is ~ 140MB/s: [..snip..] where as read is ~42MB/s [..snip..] So it doesn't seem like caching is an issue and as others are seeing similar performance issues on

Re: Very low disk read performance on 5.x ( was Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a )

2005-04-29 Thread Steven Hartland
Ok thanks for that kama good to have some comparison with 4.x I've changed the subject as this seems definitely like a more generic issue something that needs to be fixed before 5.4 release? - Original Message - From: "kama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have just tested on my system between 4.11

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread kama
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Steven Hartland wrote: > Just retried with a ~10Gb data set: > Write to FS: > dd if=/dev/zero of=.testfile bs=1m count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 1048576 bytes transferred in 92.517222 secs (113338466 bytes/sec) > > Read from FS: > dd if=.testfile

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok some real strange going on write performance is ~ 140MB/s: gstat: dT: 0.505 flag_I 50us sizeof 240 i -1 L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name 0 1100 4 63 13.2 1096 140313

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Steven Hartland
There is no precompiled version for 5.3 but looking at the openbuild version its the same driver as the built in. 80MB/s is still terrible should be looking closer to 200MB/s. Steven Hartland wrote: 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1 1+0

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Arne WXrner wrote: --- Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 and RELENG_5_4 on dual-Xeons using 3ware controllers so it does not seem to be a driver issue [...] Why? I can remember, that some people said some

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Scott Long
Steven Hartland wrote: Scott I've sent this to you as from reading around you did the original driver conversion and as such may have an idea on the areas I could look at hope you dont mind. Ok some real strange going on write performance is ~ 140MB/s: gstat: dT: 0.505 flag_I 50us sizeof 240

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Wörner
--- Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 and > RELENG_5_4 > on dual-Xeons using 3ware controllers so it does not seem to be > a driver issue [...] > Why? I can remember, that some people said some months before,