Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will just confuse

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/19 12:34 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: Thanks for your help, David. But to boot the machine from a live CD I will have to pay a visit to the computing centre in Frankfurt anyway. So instead of running a diagnostic tool I am going to install the system from scratch, this time using a 64bit

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:58:45AM +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: [...] # uname -a Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux So you're running a

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will just confuse things

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Lothar Schilling
Thanks for your help, David. But to boot the machine from a live CD I will have to pay a visit to the computing centre in Frankfurt anyway. So instead of running a diagnostic tool I am going to install the system from scratch, this time using a 64bit version.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread David Christensen
On 5/13/19 1:30 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: # cat /etc/debian_version 9.9 Okay. # uname -a Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux As other readers have noted, you are running 32-bit Debian GNU/Linux. It should not matter for what we're

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-13, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: >> On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: >> [...] >>> # uname -a >>> Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 >>> (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux >> So you're running a 32-bit

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:58 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: > > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: > > [...] > > > # uname -a > > > Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 > > > (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux > > > >

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: > [...] >> # uname -a >> Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 >> (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux > So you're running a 32-bit system, not 64-bit. Is that because you're > running

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: [...] > # uname -a > Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 > (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux So you're running a 32-bit system, not 64-bit. Is that because you're running on very old hardware or a decision for some

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 10.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Lothar Schilling: > Am 10.05.2019 um 07:48 schrieb David Christensen: >> On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to >>> give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-10 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 10.05.2019 um 07:48 schrieb David Christensen: > On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to >> give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become >> our main backup server. So I

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: Hi everybody, for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is really very very

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Fast enough... > dd if=/daten/testfile bs=1G oflag=direct of=/daten/testfile2 > 10737418240 Bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) kopiert, 72,7297 s, 148 MB/s So this is sufficiently fast, but cp /daten/testfile /daten/testfile2 lasts 2000 seconds ? > dd if=/daten/testfile

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 10:28:10 am Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined thing. > > There must be delays in

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... and its one of the reasons > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is a tightly defined thing. There must be delays in SSD firmware's processing, I suppose,

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 04:49:32 am Lothar Schilling wrote: > Hi everybody, > > for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided > to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to > become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But >

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 14:43 schrieb Lothar Schilling: > Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin: >> [..] >>> hdparm -tT /dev/sda >>> /dev/sda: >>>  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >>>  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec >>> >>> iotop -o

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 13:23 schrieb Keith Christian: > What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it? No, there isn't. Anyway, cp has the same problem.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin: > [..] >> hdparm -tT /dev/sda >> /dev/sda: >>  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >>  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec >> >> iotop -o (for rsync and cp) >> Total DISK READ :   0.00 B/s |

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
[..] > hdparm -tT /dev/sda > /dev/sda: >  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec > > iotop -o (for rsync and cp) > Total DISK READ :   0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 476.15 K/s > Actual DISK

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Keith Christian
What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it?

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 12:50 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > [ replying to list, not discretely ] > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 12:36:55) >> Am 09.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ replying to list, not discretely ] Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 12:36:55) > Am 09.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) > >> Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) >

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) > Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > >> I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main > >> backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is > >>

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 11:51 schrieb Kevin DAGNEAUX: > Le 09/05/2019 à 11:46, Lothar Schilling a écrit : >> Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 09/05/2019 à 11:46, Lothar Schilling a écrit : Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. Welcome to Debian! I sincerely hope you will appreciate

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) >> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided >> to give Debian a try. > Welcome to Debian! > > I sincerely hope you will appreciate Debian. > > >> I just set up a Stretch

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided > to give Debian a try. Welcome to Debian! I sincerely hope you will appreciate Debian. > I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup > server. So I

Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Hi everybody, for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is really very very slow. Trying to figure out what's