Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Steven Hartland
Summary of results: RAID0: Changing vfs.read_max 8 -> 16 and MAXPHYS 128k -> 1M increased read performance significantly from 129Mb/s to 199MB/s Max raw device speed here was 234Mb/s FS -> Raw device: 35Mb/s 14.9% performance loss RAID5: Changing vfs.read_max 8 -> 16 produced a small increase 129M

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread kama
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Anderson writes: > > >Don't mean to be terse here, but I'm talking about the same test done an > >two different RAID5 configurations, with different disks, and not just > >me - other users in this very thread see

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> All partitions / file system creation was done using the OS default > tool i.e. FreeBSD: sysinstall, Suse: yast Perhaps the defaults are a bit dangerous. If you have the time, could you post results with freebsd mounting asynchronously (add async as an option in the fstab) and linux mounting

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Andrey Smagin
AW> I can produce the same effect here with AW> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=400k count=1 AW> (no disc involved). It gets very nasty with bs=1m I understand it, i want to know how to give more priority for sound subsystem instead another dev IO. -- Best regards, Andrey

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Wörner
--- Andrey Smagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > driver :) ) or call of SB buffer fill. How to diagnose what > uninterruptable > process(or in system function) can to lock CPU for so much time > (1 sound buffer - 4096 bytes 4096/176400=~23ms) ? And, please, > help me with > tuning of sound performanc

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Andrey Smagin
Hi ALL, I not sure that it only low disk performance, but. When i copying /usr/src tree from file server (AMD K6-2 225) to my Duron 1133(1GB RAM), speed is about 3-4MBytes/s. But played music on my PC is some gappy. Also removing /usr/ports tree have same much effect for music. I set large b

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/02/05 23:37, Petri Helenius wrote: Robert Watson wrote: The next thing that would be quite nice to measure is the rate of I/O transactions per second we can get to the disk using the disk device directly, with a minimal transaction size. I have a vague recollection that you have to be car