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On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Alexander <b3nder@××××××.ru> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive |
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>> light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things |
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>> to complete the data is there but I haven't tested it extensively. |
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>> Is this a bad drive or am I somehow using it incorrectly? |
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> Is there any related info in dmesg? |
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No, nothing in dmesg at all. |
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Here are two tests this morning. The first is to the 1T drive, the |
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second is to a 120GB drive I'm currently using as a system drive until |
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I work this out: |
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gandalf TestMount # time tar xjf /mnt/TestMount/portage-latest.tar.bz2 |
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-C /mnt/TestMount/usr |
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real 8m13.077s |
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user 0m8.184s |
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sys 0m2.561s |
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gandalf TestMount # |
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mark@gandalf ~ $ time tar xjf /mnt/TestMount/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C |
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/home/mark/Test_usr/ |
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real 0m39.213s |
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user 0m8.243s |
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sys 0m2.135s |
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mark@gandalf ~ $ |
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8 minutes vs 39 seconds! |
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The amount of data written appears to be the same: |
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gandalf ~ # du -shc /mnt/TestMount/usr/ |
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583M /mnt/TestMount/usr/ |
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583M total |
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gandalf ~ # |
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mark@gandalf ~ $ du -shc /home/mark/Test_usr/ |
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583M /home/mark/Test_usr/ |
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583M total |
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mark@gandalf ~ $ |
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I did some reading at the WD site and it seems this drive does use the |
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4K sector size. The way it's done is the addressing on cable is still |
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512 byte 'user sectors', but they are packed into 4K physical sectors |
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and internal hardware does the mapping. |
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I suspect the performance issue is figuring out how to get the file |
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system to keep things on 4K boundaries. I assume that's what the 4K |
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block size is for when building the file system but I need to go find |
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out more about that. I did not select it specifically. Maybe I need |
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to. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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