Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, O. Hartmann wrote: On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150 ports, two SATA 300 drives attached) I copied big files (~ 5GB) from one drive to another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the copy process via 'systat

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-04 Thread O. Hartmann
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:38 AM 3/2/2007, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800,

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Cheffo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:38 AM Subject: Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 Hi, I

(S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread O. Hartmann
The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150 ports, two SATA 300 drives attached) I

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never got what's wrong? FreeBSD uses 128k limit by default. edit

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you can change FBSD to async then watch your fs scramble during a power failure no big deal, it's only your data. you are wrong, he talked about copying BIG files, and this shouldn't make a difference contrary to small files. there is something wrong there as i routinely get 70MB/s on my

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before digging into this problem deeper with benchmarks, could anyone explain why FreeBSD reaches this 33 MB/s limit (sounds like UDMA 33 defaults, but on both boxes nForce4 and ICH5 controller are recognized and show up with SATA300 or SATA150

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. blah blah blah deleted Before digging into this problem deeper with benchmarks

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Cheffo
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figure out why some

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Divacky Roman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never got

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. blah blah blah deleted Before

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800,

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 09:28, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:38 AM 3/2/2007, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Brooks Davis wrote: Also, you should time the actual copy and do the math to verify that vmstat is actually producing valid results. It's possible there's a bug in vmstat or the underlying statistics it uses. There is certainly a bug in the underlying statistics. For ATA