From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 17 13:54:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29069 for current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA29062 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id NAA17871; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12845; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610172054.NAA12845@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: Michael Hancock , Jaye Mathisen , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iozone: local vs nfs drives In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 17 Oct 96 15:18:37 -0400. Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:54:31 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote: >> > I would be interested in the answer to this, I see the same behaviour on >> > a 2940/Quantum Atlas combo, although the numbers are quite a bit higher. >> > In any case, given specifically the issue of news, where most activity is >> > reading, this is disturbing. >> IOZONE isn't the benchmark to use to determine news performance. > Actually, both my IOZONE tests were done on "non-news" drives... >they were done on /usr, on relatively dead systems.. Did you have tagged-command queuing enabled? According to my tests, that will make a BIG difference, if you have decent drives. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------