Hi >> In the last episode (Aug 21), Chris Knipe said: >>> Disks ad0 ofod intrn >>> KB/t 16.83 %slo-z 35456 buf >>> tps 103 4 tfree 414 dirtybuf
well, with 100% random I/O at 7200rpm (or 120rpm per second = maximum number of theoretical IOPS) that is a typical number I see everywhere. The 16KB average I/O-Size are OK but could be higher - but definitely your I/O-Pattern an not the avg. transactions size are the cause of your 1.7MB/sec >>> MB/s 1.70 20988 desiredvnodes >>> % busy 98 5247 numvnodes >>> 4223 freevnodes >>> >>> Got 1 ATA100 Seagate 120GB disk in there at the moment.... 1.7MB/s at >>> 98% busy? Surely, that figure is WAY low??? I'd expect atleast >>> about 10MB/s on ATA100. >> >> That number's about right for random I/O and small blocksizes, which is >> what the KB/t field shows. If you were doing sequential I/O, the KB/t >> field would be at or near 128. Are you also running a "du", "cvs >> update", or other command likely to be doing random disk accesses? > > ALTER TABLE on a 200MB mySQL table? > > I guess its time for a dedicated disk then.... Depends on the number of random I/O's you want to be able to handle - could be that you might want 2 or more aswell :-) Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"