From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 11:25:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA23738 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:25:17 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA23720 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:25:09 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA07817; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:24:45 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506021824.LAA07817@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: A performance mystery To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506021525.IAA11663@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at Jun 2, 95 11:24:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1142 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Try running ``iozone 128 8192'' to make sure you get well outside of > > the buffer cache. I remeber you had a lot of memory in this box > > so your iozone read results where most likely pure cache unless you > > ran something other than auto. Better yet run it on the raw disk to > > see what the drive can really deliver. > > Iozone was run with "200" to work on 200mb files, to ensure the memory had no > real effect. Both systems we're freshly formatted about an hour before the > test using the 2.0.5A installer. With the iozone numbers being so equivlant > (Seacrate 2.3mb write/4.2 read, Connor 2.2write/4.3 read [all within test > noise]) its probably not the disk. Okay, try a memory bandwidth benchmark to see if we have something there that is grossly different. A quick and easy bcopy test is to run iozone that does not remove the temp file on a 1/4 memory size file repeatedly, that should hit the buffer cache totatally and give us ~ bcopy rates. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD