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Date:      Sun, 08 Aug 1999 13:04:10 +0200
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        brian@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The $500 Performance Question 
Message-ID:  <199908081104.NAA28183@zed.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: Message from Brian McGroarty <bvmcg@yahoo.com>  of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 22:15:05 PDT." <19990807051505.3696.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com> 

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> I'm not sure I see where building objects to another drive would
> help either with lazy writes/soft updates on since the entire
> block of files to be written easily fits within RAM.

They are not cached forever. Dirty blocks are written everey 30 seconds. =
Why =

not just try a diffrent disk for obj?

> Interestingly, despite there only being a (roughly) 15% decrease
> in time, CPU usage jumps tremendously. Most of the time I'm
> averaging about 20% free on one CPU and as little as 5% on the
> other. I'll be curious to look at the soft update code - I
> wonder if that's coded as efficiently as it could be.

You can probably blame the giant locks instead. The CPUs will wait for =

eachother a lot.




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