I've ran out of ideas

Arne Wörner arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 18 02:55:44 PST 2004


> > I'm pushing large files via thttpd over low-end
> > hardware (celeron
> > 1.8GHz, 512MB RAM, UATA 100 drive) and, out of the
> > box, FreeBSD
> > 5.3-RELEASE topped out at 40Mbps sustained. After
> > creating a separate
> > partition with a much larger blocksize, it's hit
> > 50Mbps sustained but
> > won't go past 54Mbps at all.
> 
> You could try adding/tweaking HZ to 1000/2000 in
> kernel and add kern.polling.enable=1 to
> /etc/sysctl.conf.
>
Here I would like to mention the man page polling(4) for clarification (it does
not look like the GENERIC kernel can do polling...).

Furthermore I would like to know, how fast is a "dd if=/dev/discXY of=/dev/null
bs=64k count=1000" in single user mode on your box (I can do 42.8MByte/sec with
UDMA-100 and ST340015A (Seagate?))...

-Arne



		
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