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From: TJ <systemloc@earthlink.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:33:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412030133.07743.systemloc@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412030354.iB33sD913132@www.watkins-home.com>

> My linux system is a P3-500 with 2 CPUs and 512 Meg RAM.  My system is much
> faster than my network.  I don't know how your K6-500 compares to my
> P3-500. But RAM may be your issue.  That amount of ram seems very low.  Are
> you swapping?  What is your CPU load during the tests?  If you are at 100%,
> then you are CPU bound.

You've got a dual CPU setup, mine is only single. I'll bet you have a server 
chipset too. Still, I have serious doubts that the CPU is at fault. My guess 
would be that this could be a VIA chipset problem. The load averages while 
running these tests are allways well below 1. 

I mistyped the amount of memory. I have approx 409 MB. I am not swapping. 

> Your disk performance is faster than a 100BaseT network.  So, your
> performance may not be an issue.

The network is gigabit, with a crossover to the client machine. I used ttcp to 
verify that the link is capable of over 146 MB/sec.

TJ

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-03  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 16:38 Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance TJ
2004-12-03  0:49 ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-03  3:54   ` Guy
2004-12-03  6:33     ` TJ [this message]
2004-12-03  7:38       ` Guy
2004-12-04 15:23     ` TJ
2004-12-04 17:59       ` Guy
2004-12-04 23:51         ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-05  1:00           ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 17:48             ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 19:29               ` Guy
2004-12-06 21:10                 ` David Greaves
2004-12-06 23:02                   ` Guy
2004-12-08  9:24                     ` David Greaves
2004-12-08 18:31                       ` Guy
2004-12-08 22:00                         ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-08 22:25                           ` Guy
2004-12-08 22:41                             ` Guy
2004-12-09  1:40                               ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-12  8:56                               ` Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance - a test script David Greaves
2004-12-28  0:13                                 ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 21:16                 ` Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 21:42                   ` documentation of /sys/vm/max-readahead Morten Sylvest Olsen
2004-12-05  2:16           ` Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance Guy
2004-12-05 15:14             ` TJ
2004-12-06 21:39               ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-05 15:17           ` TJ
2004-12-06 21:34             ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-06 23:06               ` Guy
2004-12-03  6:51   ` TJ
2004-12-03 20:03   ` TJ
2004-12-04 22:59     ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-03  7:12 ` TJ
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-03 11:30 TJ
2004-12-03 11:46 ` Erik Mouw
2004-12-03 15:09   ` TJ
2004-12-03 16:25     ` Erik Mouw
2004-12-03 16:32   ` David Greaves
2004-12-03 16:50     ` Guy

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