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Don't start profiler timer until disk is spun up #131

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lrettig opened this issue Sep 22, 2023 · 0 comments
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Don't start profiler timer until disk is spun up #131

lrettig opened this issue Sep 22, 2023 · 0 comments
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lrettig commented Sep 22, 2023

I noticed that when I run the profiler on a dedicated disk that's in deep sleep, the first read is extra slow, but a subsequent read is faster:

> profiler -t 0 -n 144 --data-file /mnt/smesher-02/post/7c8cef2b/postdata_0.bin
{
  "time_s": 12.901740377,
  "speed_gib_s": 0.07750892288785359
}
> profiler -t 0 -n 144 --data-file /mnt/smesher-02/post/7c8cef2b/postdata_0.bin
{
  "time_s": 11.053322122,
  "speed_gib_s": 0.18094107616924474
}
> profiler -t 0 -n 144 --data-file /mnt/smesher-02/post/7c8cef2b/postdata_1.bin
{
  "time_s": 10.225100351,
  "speed_gib_s": 0.1955971023604089
}

(Changing nonces and threads here has no impact.)

Profiler should be smart enough to handle this case. It's probably as easy as having it perform one tiny "dummy read" before the timer starts, to make sure the disk is awake.

@poszu poszu added bug Something isn't working good first issue Good for newcomers help wanted Extra attention is needed labels Oct 2, 2023
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