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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users "find" on different OS's Post 302480522 by citaylor on Wednesday 15th of December 2010 08:00:40 AM
Old 12-15-2010
I respectfully think the statement:
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
The performance of the "find" program itself is pretty consistent across various editions of unix.
Is a little misleading and needs some qualification.
Although the find program generally works in a similar way across most UNIX/Linux variants, the performance of it is wildly different depending upon lots of factors (filesystem type/performance, filesystem tuning, hardware, O/S tuning etc). Solaris for example is notoriously slow on its UFS performance.
I will qualify this qualification with some statistics:
My solaris 8 box running IDE drives is currently doing around 4940 files per second on a given find.
My solaris 10 box running striped SCSI U320 drives is currently doing around 4854 files per second.
My AIX 5.3 43p-170 box with U160 drives on JFS is getting 4766 files per second.
My HP-UX 11.11 C3600 with U160 drives on VXFS is getting 5220 files per second.
My HP-UX 11.23 Integrity box with U320 drives on VFXS 8461 files per second.
My OpenSuSE 11.2 Lenovo W500 laptop running a SATA II drive @ 7200RPM on an EXT4 filesystem is getting 13736.
As you can see - wildly different results on wildly different platforms, with my laptop being the fastest!
This is why performance tuning and benchmarking can be one of the most complex areas of computing, due to the multitude of factors involved.

I hope this helps....
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

cd

CD(9)							   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual						     CD(9)

NAME

     cd -- CDROM driver for the CAM SCSI subsystem

DESCRIPTION

     The cd device driver provides a read only interface for CDROM drives (SCSI type 5) and WORM drives (SCSI type 4) that support CDROM type com-
     mands.  Some drives do not behave as the driver expects.  See the QUIRKS section for information on possible flags.

QUIRKS

     Each CD-ROM device can have different interpretations of the SCSI spec.  This can lead to drives requiring special handling in the driver.
     The following is a list of quirks that the driver recognize.

     CD_Q_NO_TOUCH    This flag tells the driver not to probe the drive at attach time to see if there is a disk in the drive and find out what
		      size it is.  This flag is currently unimplemented in the CAM cd driver.

     CD_Q_BCD_TRACKS  This flag is for broken drives that return the track numbers in packed BCD instead of straight decimal.  If the drive seems
		      to skip tracks (tracks 10-15 are skipped) then you have a drive that is in need of this flag.

     CD_Q_NO_CHANGER  This flag tells the driver that the device in question is not a changer.	This is only necessary for a CDROM device with
		      multiple luns that are not a part of a changer.

     CD_Q_CHANGER     This flag tells the driver that the given device is a multi-lun changer.	In general, the driver will figure this out auto-
		      matically when it sees a LUN greater than 0.  Setting this flag only has the effect of telling the driver to run the initial
		      read capacity command for LUN 0 of the changer through the changer scheduling code.

     CD_Q_10_BYTE_ONLY
		      This flag tells the driver that the given device only accepts 10 byte MODE SENSE/MODE SELECT commands.  In general these
		      types of quirks should not be added to the cd(4) driver.	The reason is that the driver does several things to attempt to
		      determine whether the drive in question needs 10 byte commands.  First, it issues a CAM Path Inquiry command to determine
		      whether the protocol that the drive speaks typically only allows 10 byte commands.  (ATAPI and USB are two prominent exam-
		      ples of protocols where you generally only want to send 10 byte commands.)  Then, if it gets an ILLEGAL REQUEST error back
		      from a 6 byte MODE SENSE or MODE SELECT command, it attempts to send the 10 byte version of the command instead.	The only
		      reason you would need a quirk is if your drive uses a protocol (e.g., SCSI) that typically does not have a problem with 6
		      byte commands.

FILES

     /sys/cam/scsi/scsi_cd.c  is the driver source file.

SEE ALSO

     cd(4), scsi(4)

HISTORY

     The cd manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>.  It was updated for CAM and FreeBSD 3.0 by Kenneth Merry
     <ken@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD
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