From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 14: 1:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C09E14CFE; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-235.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.235]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA27023; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:01:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA79579; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:01:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199905202101.QAA79579@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? In-reply-to: Message from Eivind Eklund of "Thu, 20 May 1999 22:46:04 +0200." <19990520224604.H76043@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:01:22 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund writes: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 03:12:30PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > The Hermit Hacker writes: > > > > > > Just in case nobody has yet seen this...? > > > > > > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni > > > > This is great news. My slowest SGI systems have faster metadata updates > > than my fastest FreeBSD systems, same disk hardware. > > Running soft updates? Yup. But all measurements were seat-of-the-pants. Didn't much bother to time things as at the time all that could do was to make me unhappy. An SGI system could fly right thru tar'ing FreeBSD's ports tree, either on read from tape or write to tape, where FreeBSD 3.1 with softupdates and 2.2.8 (without) can't keep the DDS-2 tape drive streaming (400k/sec). 10k blocksize in both cases. At my now former employer, I kept /home/ncvs and /usr/ports hosted on an SGI O2, 180MHz, 64MB RAM, and let the FreeBSD systems access via 10baseT ethernet. Mostly because the SGI was where disk space was available. Partly because it seemed faster. Another good test of speed was "rm -rf /usr/ports". The O2 could do it so fast it was frightening. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message