Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another

2005-10-05 Thread Patrick Proniewski
Hi, thank you all for these interesting explanations. I've made some more tests with my disks : As you'll see, for block size greater than 64k, the HDD ad6 (hitachi) is the bottleneck. bs of 1m and 512k yield to best transfert rates between ad4 and ad6 and using a pipe between to dd will low

Call for performance evaluation: net.isr.direct

2005-10-05 Thread Robert Watson
In 2003, Jonathan Lemon added initial support for direct dispatch of netisr handlers from the calling thread, as part of his DARPA/NAI Labs contract in the DARPA CHATS research program. Over the last two years since then, Sam Leffler and I have worked to refine this implementation, removing

Re: dd(1) performance when copiing a disk to another (fwd)

2005-10-05 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:14:48PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: +> Second issue: issuing intelligently sized/aligned requests. +> +> Notwithstanding the above, it makes sense to issue requests that +> work as efficient as possible further down the GEOM mesh. +> +> The chopping is one case, and