Re: A specific example of a disk i/o problem

2009-09-30 Thread Dieter
> >> > My question is why is FreeBSD's disk i/o performance so bad? > > Here is a specific demo of one disk i/o problem I'm seeing. Should be > > easy to reproduce? > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2008-July/003533.html > > > > This was over a year ago, so add 7.1 to

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >>> What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? >>> AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? >> Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - >> tried both so I think

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? > > AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? > > Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - > tried both so I think AHCI is just not suppo

Re: Performance evaluation of PostgreSQL's historic releases

2009-09-30 Thread György Vilmos
2009/9/29 Francisco Reyes > György Vilmos writes: > > I've done a benchmark of recent versions of PostgreSQL's last five major >> releases to see how performance has changed during the past years from >> version to version. >> > > Thanks! > Very interesting. > Did you share it with the Postgresq

Re: Performance evaluation of PostgreSQL's historic releases

2009-09-30 Thread György Vilmos
Hi, 2009/9/29 Attilio Rao > 2009/9/29 György Vilmos : > > Hi, > > > > I've done a benchmark of recent versions of PostgreSQL's last five major > > releases to see how performance has changed during the past years from > > version to version. > > You can find the article here: > > http://suckit.b

Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

2009-09-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Martin MATO wrote: >István a écrit : > > have you seen the previous mail about 8.0 and debug stuff? > > you might have overlooked it. > > yes UFS is not the fastest, it is FAT16, stick to that :) > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, S4mmael [1] wrote: > > > > Since the article says that

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/09/2009 19:47 Oliver Lehmann said the following: > Robert Noland wrote: > >> I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing >> relative to other implementations. > > I tried 8.0-RC1-i386.iso but the ahci driver didn't picked up my promise > nor my VIA controller. S

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Andriy Gapon wrote: > What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? > AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - tried both so I think AHCI is just not supported on my K8T800Pro chipset for the SATA controller. -- Oliver Lehmann h

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Robert Noland wrote: > I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing > relative to other implementations. I tried 8.0-RC1-i386.iso but the ahci driver didn't picked up my promise nor my VIA controller. So all the numbers now for the "old" ata driver. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:56:51 -0500 Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it > > > worked fine. > > > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-

Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

2009-09-30 Thread Martin MATO
István a écrit : have you seen the previous mail about 8.0 and debug stuff? you might have overlooked it. yes UFS is not the fastest, it is FAT16, stick to that :) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, S4mmael [1] wrote: Since the article says that they left the debugging features on I think

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:10 AM 9/30/2009, Bruce Cran wrote: I ran the tiobench test on -CURRENT a few days ago and the ahci driver showed an improvement in latency over the ata driver; I didn't test transfer rates though. I was running the AHCI driver on the freebsd-current tinderbox for 3 weeks with very good

Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

2009-09-30 Thread István
have you seen the previous mail about 8.0 and debug stuff? you might have overlooked it. yes UFS is not the fastest, it is FAT16, stick to that :) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, S4mmael wrote: > > Since the article says that they left the debugging features on I think > > this has a bit to

Fwd: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

2009-09-30 Thread S4mmael
> Since the article says that they left the debugging features on I think > this has a bit to do with it. Obviously the testers didn't care to read the > documentation, and didn't seem to care to use the same compiler which is > available in ports, I believe it is safe to chuck this lame benchmark.

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 13:17 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Robert Noland writes: > > > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > >> I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with later > >> (when I'm back home ;)) > > > > I would also be curious how that ahc

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Robert Noland writes: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with later (when I'm back home ;)) I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing relative to other implementations. So ther

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked > > fine. > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because they are > kinda cheap and another system I intend to

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Daniel O'Connor writes: In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked fine. I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because they are kinda cheap and another system I intend to use with SATA harddisks has no SATA on-board. But then I searched throug

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2009-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > A colleague of mine has the same disks in a new Nvidia Atom 330 > system and he told me that he reaches around 70MB/sec write speed > with a single large file on a single disk running linux 2.6. > > I hooked the disk up to my client: > > FreeBSD 7.2-STAB

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2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi, I got 4 new SATA disks (WD Green, 1TB, WD10EADS) I want to use to replace my old 250GB disks attached to my 3ware controller. I want to reuse the old 250GB disks in some systems running old PATA disks ight now as system drives. So what I did now was gathering SATA performance tatistics with th