From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 11:45:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0578A16A4CE; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:45:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9915443D1F; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:45:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3JBjmjW066290; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:45:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4264EF40.3060900@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:45:04 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Claus Guttesen References: <4264EC60.3020600@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/840/Mon Apr 18 20:42:09 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:45:49 -0000 Claus Guttesen wrote: >>>Q: >>>Will I get better performance upgrading the server from dual PIII to dual Xeon? >>>A: >> >>rsync is CPU intensive, so depending on how much cpu you were using for this, >>you may or may not gain. How busy was the server during that time? Is this to >>a single IDE disk? If so, you are probably bottlenecked by that IDE drive. > > > The storage is ide->fiber. Using tcp-mounts and peaking 100 MB/s it > used just about 100 % cpu. > > Rsync was only used to copy the folder recursively (-a), it used nfs > to trasnfer the files to the nfs-server. When you say 'ide->fiber' that could mean a lot of things. Is this a single drive, or a RAID subsystem? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------