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Added eight images to the gallery. Random findings in the West Fraser timber park on one of it's many secret trails.
This should help counter the large amount of random code and console snippets that have found their way on here.
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OpenBSD's em driver performance under vmware is still a bit lacking it would seem. Maybe I just got my hopes up since some of the changelog's notes since 4.3
root@scrollrack:/tmp/memnarch_tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/memnarch_tmp/testfile bs=16k count=16384
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
268435456 bytes transferred in 26.807 secs (10013587 bytes/sec)
root@scrollrack:/tmp/memnarch_tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/memnarch_tmp/testfile bs=16k count=16384
root@scrollrack:/tmp/memnarch_tmp # dd if=/tmp/memnarch_tmp/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
268435456 bytes transferred in 27.122 secs (9897256 bytes/sec)
root@scrollrack:/tmp #
(trimmed)
root@cursedscroll:/home # dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/testfile bs=16k count=16384
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
268435456 bytes transferred in 88.335 secs (3038810 bytes/sec)
root@cursedscroll:~ # dd if=/home/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k&
[1] 29127
root@cursedscroll:~ # kill -s INFO 29127
4009+0 records in
4009+0 records out
65683456 bytes transferred in 54.125 secs (1213550 bytes/sec)
Though this is a little over three times as fast with fluctuator than it was on thallid, it's still far, far less than I was hoping for.
It would also seem the memory leak on thallid is crushing read performance of it's nfs shares... funny, I would have expected read & write to be messed up equally. Oh-well.
Maybe the new vmt (4) driver will provide some joy.
I should probably sort this out before getting too much further with having sql, httpd, et al; on a separate virtualmachine... allthough, I suppose 80mbit/sec really isn't all that bad compared to 28, but It would be nice if I could get closer to the 400-550mbit/s I'm getting from the virtual disks at least.
<edit>Then again, maybe vmt will do nothing helpful.
vmt provides access to the host machines clock as a timedelta sensor.
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