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Date:      Sun, 04 Feb 1996 09:43:33 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        curt@emergent.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) 
Message-ID:  <199602041743.JAA17042@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 02:32:57 %2B1100." <199602041532.CAA02747@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>I thought -current would be much better with -o async.  However:
>
>FreeBSD-current - 486DX2/66 - 16MB RAM (BT445C Quantum Grand Prix drive,
>1/3 full 1G fs)
>(too-small buffer cache (nbuf = 247) + vm buffers that I don't understand)
>
>10000 files in 468 seconds - first run
>   467.76 real 0.87 user 17.19 sys (time /tmp/prog)
>     0.33 real 0.01 user  0.03 sys (time sync)
>10000 files in 295 seconds - second run
>   295.34 real 0.87 user 12.86 sys (time /tmp/prog)
>     0.33 real 0.02 user  0.02 sys (time sync)

Yes, but this is not exactly fair.  Your SCSI controller only has 5 times
the command overhead as your IDE card (because you have a very poor SCSI
controller).  I'd like to see the performance difference on the same
hardware.

>Bruce

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Justin T. Gibbs
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