From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 05:28:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE97F16A400 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:28:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from don@lizardhill.com) Received: from bigbird.whtech.com (bigbird.whtech.com [64.125.72.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23E4A43D5E for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:28:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from don@lizardhill.com) Received: (qmail 59923 invoked by uid 0); 16 Mar 2006 05:28:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mickey) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 16 Mar 2006 05:28:25 -0000 From: "Don O'Neil" To: Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:28:35 -0800 Message-ID: <003401c648ba$78e30a60$0300020a@mickey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcZIuni/TYZS5ZAmREibEJG4rt+vvA== Subject: Raidtest/3Ware 6000 Throughput X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:28:35 -0000 Hi all.... I'm doing some stress testing (trying to force pre-mature failures of disks if they're going to happen and check system stability) of a 3-Ware 6000 series RAID card w/ some EIDE drives attached to it in RAID 5 mode.... I am getting the following results from raidtest: Read 500000 requests from raidtest.data. Number of READ requests: 249361. Number of WRITE requests: 250639. Number of bytes to transmit: 32888206336. Number of processes: 1000. Bytes per second: 4737569 Requests per second: 72 Does this seem accurate? Should I only be seeing 4.7 MB/second throughput or is raidtest just not a good way to measure peak throughput? Any thoughts would be appreciated.