Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > > > > Comparison numbers are only valid of the tests run are the same. > > > > > > So here is the UFS test once more without the compression and > > > with -no-fifo : > > > > > > jupiter-sparc-SunOS5.10 # ptime /opt/schily/bin/star -x -xdir -xdot > > -no-fifo -U file=../linux-3.5.1.tar > > > star: 46849 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 479733760 bytes = 468490.00k). > > > > > > real 27:44.237 > > > user 2.031 > > > sys 42.419 > > > > > > Not a good result. > > > > So try to think about the reasons..... star is definitely not the reason. > > The fact that you spend 10x the amount of expectes SYS CPU seems to > > lead to a > > problem on your system. > > > > Also the USER CPU time is 8x the expected amount. Did you run this > > test in > > _very_ old hardware? > > > > Jörg > > It would be reasonable to think of a Sun Fire V480 as old hardware yes, but > not *very* old. I do have *very* old if you would like me to test there? Well, this machine is 11 years old now. This explains the large amount of CPU time. > The server runs fine, is patched up to date. The UFS filesystem that was > used is actually the root filesystem and it is a metadevice mirror of > the two internal disks. A simple mirror is slow. However, a 2300 GB FCAL drive should be faster. But... did you turn on logging? Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily