Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Brooks Davis wrote: Also, you should time the actual copy and do the math to verify that vmstat is actually producing valid results. It's possible there's a bug in vmstat or the underlying statistics it uses. There is certainly a bug in the underlying statistics. For ATA

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Amesbury
O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If SYNC is default how can you explain this: > > [12:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount > /dev/ad4s3a on / (ufs, local, synchronous) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local) > /dev/ad4s3d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad4s3f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) >

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:38 AM 3/2/2007, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 09:28, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab'

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes > and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups > around here and I saw something interesting. > > On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Divacky Roman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the > >copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' > >never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never go

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 06:03, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Cheffo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:38:45 +0200): Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread NOC Meganet
On Friday 02 March 2007 06:45, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > blah blah blah deleted > idem ;) > > Before digging into this problem deeper with benchmarks, could anyone > > explain why FreeBSD reaches this 33 MB/s limit (sounds like UDMA 33 > > man mount > > read section on "async" > > linux by defau

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never got what's wrong? FreeBSD uses 128k limit by default. edit /usr/src/sys/s

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you can change FBSD to async then watch your fs scramble during a power failure no big deal, it's only your data. you are wrong, he talked about copying BIG files, and this shouldn't make a difference contrary to small files. there is something wrong there as i routinely get 70MB/s on my SA

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Cheffo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:38:45 +0200): Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figur

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Cheffo
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before digging into this problem deeper with benchmarks, could anyone > explain why FreeBSD reaches this 33 MB/s limit (sounds like UDMA 33 > defaults, but on both boxes nForce4 and ICH5 controller are recognized > and show up with SATA300 or SATA15

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 > The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes > and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux s

(S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread O. Hartmann
The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150 ports, two SATA 300 drives attached) I co