Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
It's pretty interesting that at least three people all got exactly 150kB/s on vastly different machines, both real and virtual. Maybe the number comes from some tick frequency? -- Aram Hăvărneanu

[9fans] jumpy usb mouse on 9pi

2015-05-05 Thread Paul Ivanov
Hello 9fans, I just got a used 3 button USB mouse (IBM-M-U35) which is giving me grief on a fresh 9pi image (board rev 0xe firmware rev: 1427481988). The mouse works fine plugged into Debian and OS X machines, but on 9pi, moving the mouse causes the cursor to jump erratically around the screen,

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread KADOTA Kyohei
Thanks Anthony. I bet if you re-run the same test twice in a row, you’re going to see dramatically improved performance. I try to re-run ‘iostats md5sum /386/9pcf’. Read result is very fast. first read result is 152KB/s. second read result is 232MB/s. Your write performance in that test

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread KADOTA Kyohei
Thanks Aram. I have spent some time debugging this, but unfortunately, I couldn't find the root cause, and I just stopped using fossil. I tried to measure performance effect by replacement of component. 1) mbr or GRUB 2) pbs or pbslba 3) sdata or sdvirtio (sdvirtio is imported from 9legacy)

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread st...@quintile.net
I too see this, and feel, no proof, that things used to be better. I.e. the first time I read a file from venti it it very, very slow. subsequent reads from the ram cache are quick. I think venti used to be faster a few years ago. maybe another effect of this is the boot time seems slower than

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Hello! imho placing fossil, venti, isect, bloom and swap on single drive is bad idea. As written in in http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html - The prototype Venti server is implemented for the Plan 9 operating system in about 10,000 lines of C. The server runs on a dedicated dual

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 4 May 2015 at 19:51, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: I've just made some measurements when reading a file: Vacfs running on the same machine as Venti: 151 KB/s Vacfs running on another machine: 5131 KB/s How many times do you time it on each machine?

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread David du Colombier
I've just made some measurements when reading a file: Vacfs running on the same machine as Venti: 151 KB/s Vacfs running on another machine: 5131 KB/s How many times do you time it on each machine? Maybe ten times. The results are always the same ~5%. Also, I restarted vacfs between each

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread David du Colombier
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's not related to Fossil, since it happens with vacfs as well. Also, Venti was pretty much unchanged during the last few years. I suspected it was related to the lock change on 2013-09-19. https://github.com/0intro/plan9/commit/c4d045a91e But I remember I tried to revert

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 5 May 2015 at 16:38, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com wrote: How many times do you time it on each machine? Maybe ten times. The results are always the same ~5%. Also, I restarted vacfs between each try. It was the effect of the ram caches that prompted the question. My experience

Re: [9fans] fossil+venti performance question

2015-05-05 Thread David du Colombier
I too see this, and feel, no proof, that things used to be better. I.e. the first time I read a file from venti it it very, very slow. subsequent reads from the ram cache are quick. I think venti used to be faster a few years ago. maybe another effect of this is the boot time seems slower