From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] venti/fmtarenas approximate duration? In-Reply-To: <5a574ce77f5eb38e4c2303b85aa6c295@plan9.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:10:29 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d88c4dba-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Russ Cox wrote: > echo dma on >/dev/sdC0/ctl > that didn't make any difference, however doing: echo 'rmw on' > /dev/sdC0/ctl caused the interrupts to drop significantly (from ~7000 to ~1000) and the load to increase somewhat substantially (though still not maxed out)... honestly, i can't predict whether that's going to decrease or increase the time it takes to complete the command. from other sources i understand that venti/fmtarenas has been observed to take the better part of a night to complete :) how are you solving this for the future plan9 install disk, which will have the option to choose between kfs and fossil? andrey