Results Median Connection Time ± Std. Deviaton (ms) To: From DreamHost PS From my office (in Chicago) A Small Orange 465.5 ± 332.6 544.5 ± 1012.6 Crucial Paradigm 511.5 ± 162.0 537.5 ± 112.1 DreamHost 574.5 ± 321.5 893.5 ± 203.5 MediaTemple 520.5 ± 530.1 802.5 ± 234.6 SteadFast 523.5 ± 69.8 260.5 ± 43.6 [...]
On my ZFS tank: > bonnie++ Writing a byte at a time…done Writing intelligently…done Rewriting…done Reading a byte at a time…done Reading intelligently…done start ‘em…done…done…done…done…done… Create files in sequential order…done. Stat files in sequential order…done. Delete files in sequential order…done. Create files in random order…done. Stat files in random order…done. Delete files in random order…done. [...]
I’ve already compiled a custom kernel that enables polling. I’m now following http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9187: in loader.conf: aio_load="YES" Luckily, I had already built samba with AIO support. In smb.conf: min receivefile size = 131072 aio read size = 1 aio write size = 1 use sendfile = yes In rc.conf: ifconfig_re0="DHCP polling" in sysctl.conf: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216 kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 kern.ipc.somaxconn=32768 [...]