inn performance

[Heath Kehoe]

>
>For me (solaris 2.6/veritas) cnfs artwrites in both non-largefile and
>largefile environments tend to hover at around 10% of innd time.
>
>The area where I think we need work is on the overview side, where the
>different techniques still seem to hover around 30% of innd time.  I
>think there is more juice to be squeezed from the overview side of things
>than the cnfs side.
>

Have you tried ovdb?  This is from my server, which uses ovdb and cnfs:

INND timer:
Code region              Time    Pct    Invoked   Min(ms)    Avg(ms)    Max(ms)
article cancel   00:06:57.720   0.8%      39955     1.444     10.455     51.290
article control  00:06:49.674   0.8%      39567     1.537     10.354     48.644
article link     00:00:00.000   0.0%          0     0.000      0.000      0.000
article write    00:53:44.473   6.3%     526678     3.672      6.122     19.893
history grep     00:01:07.632   0.1%      17185     0.095      3.936     20.480
history lookup   00:23:14.306   2.7%    1816218     0.035      0.768      7.630
history sync     00:01:22.839   0.2%      70053     0.179      1.183     47.954
history write    01:32:56.339  10.9%     699546     3.606      7.971     34.267
idle             02:25:53.740  17.0%    1602884     0.087      5.461     38.636
overview write   01:04:05.672   7.5%     526678     1.840      7.302     27.955
perl filter      05:06:45.662  35.8%     675727    18.336     27.238     65.735
site send        00:20:08.775   2.4%    1750890     0.578      0.690      1.417

TOTAL: 14:15:54  12:03:06.832  84.5%          -         -          -          -


-h