Re: Network performance issues when writing to disk (5.2.1-RELEASE)

From: David Burns (david.burns_at_dugeem.net)
Date: 08/11/04

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    Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:33:17 +1000
    To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
    
    

    Erik Rothwell wrote:

    <snip>

    >
    > When writing to a file, however:
    >
    > # nc -l -p 2332 -vv | dd if=/dev/stdin of=/data/junk bs=1k
    > listening on [any] 2332 ...
    > connect to [192.168.5.1] from [192.168.5.3] 51296
    > sent 0, rcvd 1130496
    > 1046+115 records in
    > 1046+115 records out
    > 1130496 bytes transferred in 32.888345 secs (34374 bytes/sec)
    >

    You didn't mention what your hardware is... particularly disk IO
    controller...

    If ata you could verify your disk is in a DMA mode - with "atacontrol
    mode 0" etc

    One other possibility is PCI bus contention - particularly if the box
    has some ancient PCI implementation and/or slow memory.

    Regards,
    David
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