[SunHELP] Slow newfs 36GB HD - Solaris 7

[Sean Holden]

I have to agree. After doing more testing on other systems I came to
the conclusion that Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 are just slower at formating. I
was concerned that there might have been other issues with disk io in
general but apparently not!
Thanks!

Sean

--- Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net> wrote:
> Improving the speed of formatting UFS partitions was one of the
> enhancements Sun specifically mentioned for Solaris 8, they made a
> big
> deal about exactly the scenario you describe.  Guess they were right!
>  ;)
> 
> KeS
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sean Holden wrote:
> 
> > I have been experiencing something odd on our new E450's. They have
> > 4x480Mhz processors and 36GB internal hard drives. I have installed
> > Solaris 7 11/99 release. When I format one of the drives as a
> single
> > partition it takes over 7 minutes to newfs it. The same systems
> running
> > Solaris 8 only take about 30 seconds and our older E450's with the
> > slower processors also only take about 30-50 seconds. None of the
> > systems I have tested on have had any users or user processes
> running
> > when I test. I can't find any patches on sunsolve that seem to
> apply to
> > this issue and I have even opened a support call with sun but so
> far
> > noone there has been able to help (actually noone seemed interested
> in
> > helping, but thats another story.) Have any of you experienced
> > something like this? Anyone running the 480Mhz 450 with Solaris 7?
> Any
> > ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Sean
> >
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