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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
To:        jrossiter@symantec.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Severe I/O Problems
Message-ID:  <200110130025.f9D0PT562604@mikko.rsa.com>
References:  <OF771AB257.5E1F2BC6-ON88256AE3.0077DC3F@symantec.com>

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In local.freebsd.hackers you write:

>There appear to be a lot of changes that went into the filesystem and I/O
>code between 4.3 and 4.4.  A little over a week ago I upgraded my 4.3 box
>to 4.4-STABLE and immediately I started having I/O slowdown.  I do
>development and QA on a program that is very I/O bound, but the changes
>between 4.3 and 4.4 aren't small enough that I can ignore them.

>A few statistics:

>BSD, P4 1.4GHz, ATA100 drives
>- Normal test run on 4.3 was taking ~3 hours.
>- Normal test run on 4.4 is taking 15-16 hours.

>P3-800, ATA66 drives, SuSE Linux 7.1:
>- Normal test run takes ~4.5 hours.

>UltraSparc 10, Solaris 8, ATA66 drives:
>- Normal test run takes ~6 hours.

>As you can see, this jump was just phenomenal.

Yup, sure looks bad.  Post output from at least:

 % dmesg | grep ata
 % sysctl -a | grep ata
 % mount | grep ufs

to give people something more to go on.

  $.02,
  /Mikko
-- 
 Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
 RSA Security

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