Subject: Re: Making sense out of bonnie++ results
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2006 00:02:41
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:42:08PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:32:55PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> [...]
> > But how do I explain the rest?  I mean, "random read".  That's almost 80
> > times slower!
> > 
> > Partitions info:
> > A -> g: 122880240  24289776     4.2BSD   2048 16384   328
> > B -> e:  31461696  33559800     4.2BSD   2048 16384 28104
> > 
> > What's the exact meaning of the last field?  Is it relevant to the
> > issue?  I simply newfs'd the partition.  The partition on machine A was
> > newfs'd a long, long time ago.
> 
> I did some more tests;  I used a newfs from 1.6 and it didn't change the
> outcome of the test.
> 
> I'm still open to any idea explaining that behaviour :)

dkctl wd0 getcache ?

Pavel