ATA disk performance (ICH2 controller), some testsandcomparison
with Linux 2.6.5
John-Mark Gurney
gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Sun Sep 26 20:15:33 PDT 2004
Mauro Triulzi wrote this message on Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:20 +0200:
> ii) Now I tried a fair raw throughput comparison between Linux and
> FreeBSD. This time I read always the same whole (Linux) partition
> (~4GB) so that the results should be comparable. I always used native
> dd (FreeBSD and Linux). A measure with Linux dd under emulation
> in FreeBSD gave yet the same result:
>
> dd if=/dev/ad0s9 bs=nnn of=/dev/null
> FreeBSD:
> nnn=4k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 170.031898 secs (25299895
> bytes/sec)
> nnn=8k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 114.446100 secs (37587905
> bytes/sec)
> nnn=16k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 87.794076 secs (48998627
> bytes/sec)
> nnn=64k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 89.515195 secs (48056525
> bytes/sec)
> nnn=512k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 90.357666 secs (47608458
> bytes/sec)
> (no significant changes before or after reinit)
>
> Linux:
> nnn=4k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 93 secs (~46 Mbytes/sec)
> nnn=8k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 86 secs (~50 Mbytes/sec)
> nnn=16k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 90 secs (~48 Mbytes/sec)
> nnn=64k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 95 secs (~45 Mbytes/sec)
> nnn=512k: 4301789184 bytes transferred in 92 secs (~47 Mbytes/sec)
>
> I notice, that the rates are very similar if bs >= 16k. Under FreeBSD
> the raw throughput rate depends on the block size. Read rate under Linux
> is independent of the block size. Is there a special reason for that?
Last I heard Linux did not have a raw device.. this means that it will
always be cached, and will do various read-ahead optimizations, while
FreeBSD does not have a buffered/cooked device anymore.. w/o the cooked
device FreeBSD has to suffer the latency of the command to the drive...
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