Re: gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-27 Thread Eric Anderson
On 10/27/06 18:03, Steve Peterson wrote: I recently set up a media server for home use and decided to try the gvinum raid5 support to learn about it and see how it performs. It seems slower than I'd expect -- a little under 6MB/second, with about 50 IOs/drive/second -- and I'm trying to unders

gvinum raid5 performance seems slow

2006-10-27 Thread Steve Peterson
I recently set up a media server for home use and decided to try the gvinum raid5 support to learn about it and see how it performs. It seems slower than I'd expect -- a little under 6MB/second, with about 50 IOs/drive/second -- and I'm trying to understand why. Any assistance/pointers would

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Cracauer
Wasn't Dragonfly split off to do exactly what some troll here wanted? Use FreeBSD-4.x as a base for a *BSD. I would be curious to know whether Dragonfly-current or whatever they name it fix the performance problems assumed (but not proven). Or whether Dragonfly went into difficulties with thread