Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Martin A. Fink wrote:
The needed total bandwidth may be to high and at least the incoming part via
GigE may have serious overhead.
150MB/s in via (at least 2) GigE, without Zero-Copy there is another 150MB/s
memory to memory.
Then there is the next 150MB/s memory to the discs, without Zero-Copy there
also another 150MB/s memory to memory.
In total that's 300MB/s to 600MB/s without any processing.

I dont understand your calculation: from 3 GE ports come around 50 MB/each.
These altogether 150MB/s have to be copied to memory. From there they will be
copied to disk. So we talk about 2x150 MB/s running through my system. That
is less than 2 PCIe lanes can handle... And there are more than 2 lanes
between north and south bridge....

It may be that the TCP/IP-Stack has to copy the data around. But someone that knows the inner workings would have to answer this.
That may also depend on the used NIC.

Also the data doesn't appear 'en bloc', but arrives over a period of time, so you have more or less big "gaps" in the processing.

Especially the "gaps" can considerably lower total achievable bandwidth.

A little naive fallacy (According to dict.leo.org a translation for: Milchmädchenrechnung):
You get a package of work every (say) 1ms and you (say) need .2ms for processing, shoveling and writing to disc.
Then there is no way you can saturate more than 1/5 of total theoretical bandwidth, because 80% of the time you are waiting for more work to come.



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