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From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti/fmtarenas approximate duration?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:36:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37008ea12e2342f5883967e918beebf0@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306231701320.16694-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

> what's the normal duration for venti/fmtarenas?
>
> i am running it on a 60gb arenas partition (created with "disk/prep -n arenas
> -n isect" -- very useful options!) and it's taking the better part of three
> hours already (2.6ghz pentium4).
>
> stats reports ~7000 interrupts per second, 96% of the time spent in
> interrupts.

echo dma on >/dev/sdCx/ctl

will help a lot.

Having said that, the initial snapshot of a 35 GB file system still took 40 hours
(but everything -- fossil, arenas, index -- was on one disk (a temporary
necessity to free up disk space elsewhere)).

	Sape



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-23 23:04 andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-23 23:14 ` Russ Cox
2003-06-24  1:10   ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-24  1:31     ` jmk
2003-06-24  1:42       ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-24  1:54         ` jmk
2003-06-24  2:25           ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-24  3:00     ` Russ Cox
2003-06-25  7:55       ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-06-25  7:53         ` Lucio De Re
2003-06-25  8:07           ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-06-25  8:04             ` Lucio De Re
2003-06-25  9:38               ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-06-25 10:16                 ` Lucio De Re
2003-06-24 14:36 ` Sape Mullender [this message]
2003-06-24 14:43   ` andrey mirtchovski

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