From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 03:46:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B286316A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:46:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8EB43D39 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:46:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 317F48565B; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:16:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:16:24 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20050209034624.GN28715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050208231208.B94338@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwbb4r/vLufKlfJs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050208231208.B94338@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 03:46:27 -0000 --rwbb4r/vLufKlfJs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 8 February 2005 at 23:21:54 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I have a Dual-Xeon server with 4G of RAM, with its primary file system > consisting of 4x73G SCSI drives running RAID5 using vinum ... the > operating system is currently FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Fri Oct 22 15:06:55 > ADT 2004 ... swap usage is 0% (6149) ... and it performs worse then any of > my other servers, and I have less running on it then the other servers ... > > I also have HTT disabled on this server ... and softupdates enabled on the > file system ... > > That said ... am I hitting limits of software raid or is there something I > should be looking at as far as performance is concerned? Maybe something > I have misconfigured? Based on what you've said, it's impossible to tell. Details would be handy. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --rwbb4r/vLufKlfJs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCCYeQIubykFB6QiMRAo8cAKCto3O+XDMoKzFVxJn+/dLSknhpAACgkXoV VAo4maXurdV5dabfPIgtAi0= =QLPR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwbb4r/vLufKlfJs--