Re: shell speed/priority

2005-08-13 Thread Wörner
--- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I would guess renice on sshd/bash be appropriate > but there are numerous processes of each and if so which > ones should I renice. > Just try it... :-)) You could try renice -10 $$ after you managed to get root priviliges (that command would give yo

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-03 Thread Wörner
--- Andrey Smagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > driver :) ) or call of SB buffer fill. How to diagnose what > uninterruptable > process(or in system function) can to lock CPU for so much time > (1 sound buffer - 4096 bytes 4096/176400=~23ms) ? And, please, > help me with > tuning of sound performanc

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Wörner
--- Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On -current and 5.4 you don't have to make partitions if you > > intend to use the entire disk (and provided you don't want > > to boot from it). You can simply: > >

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Wörner
--- Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scenario B, verified read enabled: > 1. RAID card reads up ALL blocks in the stripe (5 reads). > 2. RAID card pretends the block requested is on a "degraded" > drive, and > calculates it from the other 3 + the XOR stripe. > 3. RAID card reports the value back

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Wörner
--- Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also you should keep in mind, there could simply be some really > goofy > controller option enabled, that forces the RAID5 to behave in a > "degraded" > state for reads -- forcing it to read up all the other disks in > the stripe > and calculate the XOR aga

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Wörner
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arne Wörner wrote: > > --- Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Arne Wörner wrote: > >> > >>>3. The man page geom(4) of R5.3 says "The GEOM framework >

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-02 Thread Wörner
--- Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uhm, if you are using RAID5 and your requests are not aligned > and sized after the RAID5 you should *expect* read performance > to be poor. > Wouldn't that affect both (read and write) in the same way? > If the disk has bad sectors or other hardw

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-01 Thread Wörner
--- Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Arne WXrner wrote: > > 3. The man page geom(4) of R5.3 says "The GEOM framework > > provides an infrastructure in which "classes" can per- > > form transformations on disk I/O requests on their path > > from the upper kernel

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-04-30 Thread Wörner
--- Arne Wörner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Anderson wrote: > > I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 > > and RELENG_5_4 on dual-Xeons using 3ware controllers so > > it does n

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Wörner
--- Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 and > RELENG_5_4 > on dual-Xeons using 3ware controllers so it does not seem to be > a driver issue [...] > Why? I can remember, that some people said some months before,

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Wörner
--- Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only on write this is a read test. > Oh. Ok! :-) But there is a striping-like effect (especially when u use n=8 discs in one RAID-5 and when u do sequential read), so that the performance could be easily (n-1)*40MB/sec (which would be in your case 3

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Wörner
--- Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Eric Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Where do I start looking? > > First, understand that RAID 5 is dependant on fast hardware to > > performa > > the XOR operations. A single disk without any RAID can easily > > outperform a RAID array i

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Wörner
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, understand that RAID 5 is dependant on fast hardware to > performa > the XOR operations. A single disk without any RAID can easily > outperform a RAID array if the RAID array is on a 'slow' > controller. > The Highpoint controllers are not e

Re: Performance Intel Pro 1000 MT (PWLA8490MT)

2005-04-19 Thread Wörner
I would try to transfer from /dev/zero to /dev/null via the network interface. It might be interesting, 1. if it is a switched network, 2. if there is a lot of concurrency between the network nodes, and 3. if there are really a lot of PCI cards fighting for the bus (btw. when I multiply 33e6, 8 an