From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 20: 8:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.tricity.wsu.edu (beta.tricity.wsu.edu [192.31.216.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D854937B933 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:08:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by beta.tricity.wsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA18429; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:37:39 -0800 From: Mark Smith Message-Id: <200003210437.UAA18429@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Subject: Re: vinum stats and question(addendum) To: grog@lemis.com Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:37:39 -0800 (PST) Cc: fbsddave@mrcaffeine.com (fbsd-dave), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000320122326.I2898@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 20, 2000 12:23:26 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Right, but that's not the problem here. rawio doesn't do any file > I/O, though I should probably add some options for it. I'm puzzled by > the slow sequential write performance. Is it possible that you (Mark) > are doing this with FreeBSD 3.x? In that case, you're running the > disk tests against the block device, which caches. Use /dev/rda1s2e > and /dev/rda2s2e and things will be more comparable. Yah, 3.4R straight off the CD. OK. I'll give that a whirl next. I did try oddball stripe size numbers like 200b, 10090b and 20090b and still got the same bonnie and rawio numbers. MarkM -- ========================================================================= UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message