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- Path: sparky!uunet!consult!bob
- From: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP)
- Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
- Subject: Re: Performance issues revisited
- Message-ID: <1267@consult.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:36:11 GMT
- References: <9212211533.aa29993@dlpco.dlpco.COM>
- Reply-To: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP )
- Organization: CCS Enterprises, Inc. - Easton, MD
- Lines: 43
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- In article <92111533.3@dlpco.dlpco.COM> lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn ) writes:
- >On another machine that I worked with, we found out that the hard
- >drive was the bottleneck. I used the following command as a quick
- >test to see about the bytes/second off the drive and found it very
- >very slow.
- > time dd if=/dev/rhd0a of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=8192
- >This is a 16 meg copy to /dev/null. On a lively machine, I expect
- >to see 1 Megabyte/second or better. On my customer's machine, we
- >were getting around 200 K/sec. Replaced the drive and he came back
- >up to speed.
-
- This was a very interesting post, and got me to thinking (look out!!)..
-
- We are in the process of upgrading our internal machine and have been
- looking for some forms of measurement of determining the difference in
- speed between the machine. Running the above command on the new machine
- yielded some interesting results, but NOT the ones that we wanted.
-
- OLD MACHINE NEW MACHINE
- 386/33 w/8mb memory 64kcache 486/DX266 w/16mb memory 256k cache
- Ultrastor 12F ESDI controller Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller
- Maxtor 338mb drive (~ 16ms) HP 667 SCSI-2 drive (~13ms)
- CMS Enhancement 250mb tape Archive ST-525 mb tape (SCSI)
- Results of above command:
- Real 25.3 user 0.3 sys 5.2 real 1:01.6 user 0.3 sys 3.6
- Tape backup results when using CTAR
- Typical: 2.3mb/min Typical: 5.8mb/min
-
- While the backup time is noticeable faster, the dd command for disk transfer
- appears noticeable SLOWER on the new machine??? Is there anything obvious
- in the above configuration that can cause problems? Is there anything
- special that needs to be done to the Adaptec controller to get better
- performance?? This is very uncomforting since we are upgrading to obtain
- more throughput.
-
- Thanks Lee for the very thought provoking command you offered to the
- net. (I think...) :*)
-
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