On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Andres Salazar <ndrsslzr80@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Bret S. Lambert
> <bret.lambert@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Iam going to use these machines for database and Iam very concerned
>>> about these results
>>
>> Honestly, you'd do better asking that on a list dedicated to whatever
>> database you're going to be running.
>>
>> In addition to helping you choose hardware to fit your needs, they'll
>> totally pimp your configs, too.
>>
>
> Thanks, it will still be interested then to know what the avergae
> userland compilation is on similar hardware? Also any standard way of
> benchmarking IO on openbsd?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andres
>
>

I would say it's probably bottlenecking on disk I/O based on what
you're telling me.  The quad core could have a shitty SATA chipset in
it, causing poor I/O scores.  If the times stop at 30 mins, it's
probably the SATA controller that's reached its limit.

Setting the controller to AHCI would give OpenBSD access to NCQ where
available, but the driver would also have to be written to take
advantage of this I would imagine.  There would also have to *be* a
driver for the controller, which wouldn't be needed if it's being run
in legacy mode (IDE emulation essentially).

If your hard drive comes up as wd0, it's set in Legacy mode.  If it's
sd0, it's in SATA/RAID/AHCI mode (dependant on manufacturer).

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