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authorgrog <grog@FreeBSD.org>1999-03-13 07:45:52 +0000
committergrog <grog@FreeBSD.org>1999-03-13 07:45:52 +0000
commitca26aeffd13ecaaf5230f097bc61b74fc3d39933 (patch)
treea8d38969f937431629254a68e9b4e47994cd2ff4 /sbin
parent04a3606b9ebed655a1b2ab87043b8f45be271a04 (diff)
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Describe the new debug flags DEBUG_EOFINFO and DEBUG_MEMFREE.
Fix a confusion between slices and partitions. Clarify the problems of small stripe sizes (< 128 kB).
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/vinum/vinum.819
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/vinum/vinum.8 b/sbin/vinum/vinum.8
index a7939a8..efb6f8c 100644
--- a/sbin/vinum/vinum.8
+++ b/sbin/vinum/vinum.8
@@ -374,6 +374,12 @@ Keep a circular buffer of last requests.
.It DEBUG_REVIVECONFLICT (16)
.br
Print info about revive conflicts.
+.It DEBUG_EOFINFO (32)
+.br
+Print information about internal state when returning an EOF on a striped plex.
+.It DEBUG_MEMFREE (64)
+.br
+Maintain a circular list of the last memory areas freed by the memory allocator.
.It DEBUG_REMOTEGDB (256)
.br
Go into remote
@@ -668,14 +674,8 @@ the configuration in order from the most recently updated to least recently
updated configuration.
.Nm
maintains an up-to-date copy of all configuration information on each disk
-partition. You must specify all of the partitions in a configuration as the
+partition. You must specify all of the slices in a configuration as the
parameter to this command.
-.Nm
-.Nm read
-accepts the names of non-Vinum partitions, so you can specify all partitions
-upon which a
-.Nm
-partition might be resident to this command.
.Pp
The
.Nm read
@@ -1018,8 +1018,9 @@ integer), and it must be a multiple of a disk sector (512 bytes).
.sp
For optimum performance, stripes should be at least 128 kB in size: anything
smaller will result in a significant increase in I/O activity due to mapping of
-individual requests over multiple disks. The increase in concurrency due to
-this mapping will not make up for the increase in latency. A good guideline for
+individual requests over multiple disks. The performance improvement due to the
+increased number of concurrent transfers caused by this mapping will not make up
+for the performance drop due to the increase in latency. A good guideline for
stripe size is between 256 kB and 512 kB.
.Pp
A striped plex must have at least two subdisks (otherwise it is a concatenated
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