Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:19:14PM +0100, Jasse Jansson wrote:
On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Bill Hacker wrote:
Robert Luciani wrote:
Freddie Cash wrote:
Booting FreeBSD 7.1 into a full KDE 4.2
desktop takes less than 5 minutes. This is using 3x 120 GB SATA
drives in a single raidz1.
Wow 5 minutes?!
I don't think I'd be pushing it if I said that seems really slow. :S
On such a fast machine I'd be irritated if it took over a minute to
boot. On my
3Ghz Athlon X2 w/ 2Gb RAM, DragonFly boots vkernels, hosting
services, and Gnome
in about a minute with my two 500Gb hammer drives.
One minute 45 seconds into Xfce4 for a VIA C7 @ 1.5 GHz, 2 GB DDR-533,
all-hammerfs on 2 natacontrol RAID1 'antique' 60 GB PATA UDMA 100 HDD.
One minute 4 seconds into Xfce4 for an Intel T2130 @ 1.86 GHz 2 GB ?
RAM, 1 X 120 GB 2.5" HDD, DFLY on 33 GB ad0s1, UFS2 with one hammer
partition.
RIADz looks to be the wall-time hog....
RAIDZ is known to be slow, even the main developers admit it if you
force them to it.
I'd recommend the individual seeing ~5 minute boot times try disabling
ZFS prefetching. Place vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" in
/boot/loader.conf and reboot the machine.
For same-box use, I'm happy to use hardware RAID or even a low-level
(block) pseudo RAID, such as [n]atacontrol.
A good LSi controller or such with decent cache (and battery) can make
even a marginal fs work faster..
'back in the days of .. ' 100 Mbps TCNS (ARCnet), an EISA-bus Novell fs
with twin CDC Wren IV on twin SCSI controllers (duplexed) was faster
over-the-wire than any local HDD we could buy for ISA-bus 386'en.
OTOH, Netware had grwon up on ARCnet, cheated by assuming zero-error
links. Which TCNS, on either fibre-optic or coax actually delivered.
Unlike 10-Base-T Ethernet of that era...
Bill
