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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811250544530.19316@p34.internal.lan>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:46:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
Stian Jordet <liste@...det.net>,
Alan Piszcz <ap@...arrain.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: Extreme slowness with xfs [WAS: Re: Slowness with new pc]
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:56:24AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> barriers enabled:
>>
>> $ time bash -c 'tar xf linux-2.6.27.7.tar; sync'
>> block 573932: ** Block of NULs **
>> Total bytes read: 293857280 (281MiB, 1.9MiB/s)
>>
>> real 2m40.643s
>> user 0m0.194s
>> sys 0m1.541s
>>
>> barriers disabled:
>>
>> time bash -c 'tar xf linux-2.6.27.7.tar; sync'
>> block 573932: ** Block of NULs **
>> Total bytes read: 293857280 (281MiB, 11MiB/s)
>>
>> real 0m27.612s
>> user 0m0.182s
>> sys 0m1.617s
>
> That's worse than usual, and even the no-barriers numbers are still
> really bad. What kind of disk and controller is this? Did you
> try to disable the cache with hdparm and see what that gives?
>
WD 750G on ICH7
Device Model: WDC WD7500AAKS-00RBA0
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA
AHCI Controller (rev 01)
I've not tried playing with the cache.
Justin.
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