Re: dump cache performance

2010-10-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org writes:
 I've mostly convered to ZFS but still have UFS root (which is basically
 a full base install without /var but including /usr/src - 94k inodes
 and 1.7GB).  I've run both the 8-stable (stable) and patched (jfd) dump 
 alternately 4 times with 50/250MB cache with the following results:

 x stable
 + jfd
 ++
 |   +|
 |   +|
 |  x+|
 |x xx   +|
 ||AMA|
 ++
 N   Min   MaxMedian   AvgStddev
 x   4  9413  9673  95689555.5 107.12143
 +   4 15359 15359 15359 15359 0

9413 what?  Puppies?

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Re: dump cache performance

2010-10-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Oct-27 20:17:06 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote:
Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org writes:
 I've mostly convered to ZFS but still have UFS root (which is basically
 a full base install without /var but including /usr/src - 94k inodes
 and 1.7GB).  I've run both the 8-stable (stable) and patched (jfd) dump 
 alternately 4 times with 50/250MB cache with the following results:

 x stable
 + jfd
 ++
 |   +|
 |   +|
 |  x+|
 |x xx   +|
 ||AMA|
 ++
 N   Min   MaxMedian   AvgStddev
 x   4  9413  9673  95689555.5 107.12143
 +   4 15359 15359 15359 15359 0

9413 what?  Puppies?

Ooops, sorry - KB/sec as reported in the dump summary.

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Re: dump cache performance

2010-10-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org writes:
 Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote:
  9413 what?  Puppies?
 Ooops, sorry - KB/sec as reported in the dump summary.

Thank you :)

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Re: dump cache performance

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Oct-24 18:05:05 +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes j...@dockes.org wrote:
It appears that modifying dump to use a shared cache in a very simple way
(move the control structures to the shared segment and perform simple locking)
yields substantial speed increases.

Indeed.  That's better than I expected.

Would someone be interested in reviewing the patch and/or perform
more tests ?

I've mostly convered to ZFS but still have UFS root (which is basically
a full base install without /var but including /usr/src - 94k inodes
and 1.7GB).  I've run both the 8-stable (stable) and patched (jfd) dump 
alternately 4 times with 50/250MB cache with the following results:

x stable
+ jfd
++
|   +|
|   +|
|  x+|
|x xx   +|
||AMA|
++
N   Min   MaxMedian   AvgStddev
x   4  9413  9673  95689555.5 107.12143
+   4 15359 15359 15359 15359 0
Difference at 95.0% confidence
5803.5 +/- 131.063
60.7347% +/- 1.3716%
(Student's t, pooled s = 75.7463)

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