Re: Status of ATA tagging in Stable

2003-03-30 Thread Steve Watt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a P3 system running STABLE built on March 7. I installed a new >IBM DTLA disk drive and was distressed at its slowness, so I tried >turning on tagging to see if that would help. It seemed to, until... > >3 AM when my p

BOOTMFS image too big

2003-03-30 Thread Kent Hauser
I tried building a "release" ISO image today, but it failed because it couldn't build the boot floppies. Tail end of the build process (with an `ls' and `du' thown in). Is this known? Kent linking BOOTMFS textdata bss dec hex filename 2650861 209180 210260 3070301 2ed95d

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Lukas Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone has an idea what's going wrong here? (Apart from me doing bullsh*t > benchmarking :-) .) Just out of curiosity, try again with prime stripe sizes (31, 61, 127, 257, 509) or at least odd ones (31, 63, 127, 255, 511). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EM

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Lukas Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to > help. I additionally added "options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO" to the kernel, and it > has raised write performance in the single-disk case (although I'm not > happy with that one either; I expect

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Lukas Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to > > help. I additionally added "options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO" to the kernel, and it > > has raised write performance in the single-disk case

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Lukas Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Does the data sheet for your disk indicate that it can in fact write > > much faster than that? > Well, the HP/Compaq webpages are full of marketing speech wrt that, but > since these disks are U320 disks,

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 14:08:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > Lukas Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyone has an idea what's going wrong here? (Apart from me doing bullsh*t >> benchmarking :-) .) > > Just out of curiosity, try again with prime stripe sizes (31, 61, 127, > 257, 509) o

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 16:30:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > Anti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> try benchmarking ccd as well to see how it compares? and try some big stripe >> sizes (4093, 8191, 12281)? > > I believe Greg showed in his USENIX paper on Vinum that large stripe > sizes are

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 18:10:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > Lukas Ertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to >> help. I additionally added "options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO" to the kernel, and it >> has raised write performance in th