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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Performance issues revisited
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <9212211533.aa29993@dlpco.dlpco.COM> <1267@consult.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:41:36 GMT
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- In <1267@consult.UUCP> bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >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
-
- Interesting results.
-
- I tried this command on one of our computers here,
-
- 486DX/50 w/16 mb memory 256K cache
- Cheap Asian IDE interface(Goldstar I think?)
- Maxtor 340 Meg IDE drive
-
- Real 21.2 user 0.2 sys 5.3
-
- However, I decided on a much cheaper way to improve performance, especially
- considering how poorly that Adaptec performed. :)
- Instead I executed this command:
-
- time dd if=/dev/rhd0a of=/dev/null bs=131072 count=128
-
- Real 12.5 user 0.0 sys 0.7
-
-
- I'm curious if perhaps the configuration you have just doesn't like the
- smaller block size. I suppose it might be possible...
-
-
-
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
- Project Vincent ICSS Resource Unit
- SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS 2142 Agronomy Hall
- Iowa State University
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