Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alexandre Biancalana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071221 15:53] wrote: > On 12/21/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What application are you scanning these files with? I know I had > > issues with rsync in particular where I had to have it rsync > > smaller pieces of a collection f

Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-21 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 12/21/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Alexandre Biancalana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071221 12:48] wrote: > > On 12/21/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Alfred ! > > > > > > > > There is a lot of very good tuning advice in this thread, however > > > one th

Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers

2007-12-21 Thread Patrick Proniewski
On 21 déc. 2007, at 23:00, Jack Vogel wrote: Jack Vogel (cc'd) is the Intel developer that maintains the FreeBSD drivers. He should be able to shed more light on this question. thanks Tom I don't know what uses the mii code but my drivers dont :) ok, it's probably not related. I've found

Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers

2007-12-21 Thread Jack Vogel
On Dec 21, 2007 2:20 AM, Tom Judge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Proniewski wrote: > > On 21 déc. 07, at 10:03, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > > > >>> I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the Intel > >>> PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD: > >>> I was wondering: is there any point in r

Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alexandre Biancalana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071221 12:48] wrote: > On 12/21/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alfred ! > > > > > There is a lot of very good tuning advice in this thread, however > > one thing to note is that having ~1 million files in a directory > > is not a

Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-21 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 12/21/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Alfred ! > > There is a lot of very good tuning advice in this thread, however > one thing to note is that having ~1 million files in a directory > is not a very good thing to do on just about any filesystem. I think I was not clear, I

Re: Bad performance when accessing a lot of small files

2007-12-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alexandre Biancalana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071219 11:35] wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a backup server running FreeBSD 7-BETA3. The cpu is CPU: > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz, 3GB Ram, 10x 500GB > SATA, Areca 1231-ML, the filesystem used to backup my other servers > locally is

Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers

2007-12-21 Thread Tom Judge
Patrick Proniewski wrote: On 21 déc. 07, at 10:03, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the Intel PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD: I was wondering: is there any point in running those drivers instead of the freebsd ones, performance wise of course. AFAI

Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers

2007-12-21 Thread Patrick Proniewski
On 21 déc. 07, at 10:03, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the Intel PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD: I was wondering: is there any point in running those drivers instead of the freebsd ones, performance wise of course. AFAIK these are the drivers th

Re: intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers

2007-12-21 Thread Gergely CZUCZY
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:39:39AM +0100, Patrick Proniewski wrote: > Hello, > > I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the Intel PRO/1000 > Family on FreeBSD: > > > > I was wondering: is there any

intel drivers vs. freebsd drivers

2007-12-21 Thread Patrick Proniewski
Hello, I've just discovered that Intel provides some drivers for the Intel PRO/1000 Family on FreeBSD: I was wondering: is there any point in running those drivers instead of the freebsd ones, performance wis