On Fri Apr 24 13:51:18 EDT 2009, st...@quintile.net wrote:
> Is wrarenas (write venti arenas back to disk) really really
> slow or have I a hardware problem.
>
> reading 10 arenas took 30secs or so, writing them into
> a new venti (even with a bloom filter and DMA turned on)
> took about 36 hours.
>
> is this expected?
sidestepping the question about venti, a modern disk
with modern hardware should give >40mb/s; that is
dd -if /dev/sdXX/data -of /dev/null -bs 512k -count 1000
should take < 12.5s.
- erik
