From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 21 15:09:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA01142 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:09:09 -0700 Received: from parmenides.cfar.umd.edu (parmenides.cfar.umd.edu [128.8.132.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA01137 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:08:59 -0700 Received: from empedocles.cfar.umd.edu (empedocles.cfar.umd.edu [128.8.132.6]) by parmenides.cfar.umd.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA20784; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:08:55 -0400 Received: (cvance@localhost) by empedocles.cfar.umd.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) id SAA07274; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:08:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:08:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Vance To: hardware@freebsd.org cc: Christopher Vance Subject: Adaptech 1542 & 3Com 3c509 conflict? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I seem to have some sort of conflict between my network interface and scsi disks. The scsi controller is an adaptech 1542CF and the eth adapter is a 3c509. Basically, the network is slow writing to a scsi disk, and fast the rest of the time. Has anyone seen this before? Can anyone suggest something I could do to fix the situation? I would appreciate any help and or experiences with this setup. I have tried moving the scsi controller to irq 15 and the 3c509 to irq 5, without any luck. I'm out of ideas... A bunch of stats & info are included below. thanks. chris. ------------------- Useful Bits ------------------- ftping to a computer on the same ethernet segment: ftp a 10M file writing it to the scsi disk (sd0s1f): 10027008 bytes received in 36 seconds (2.8e+02 Kbytes/s) get a 10M file writing it to /dev/null: 10027008 bytes received in 19 seconds (5.1e+02 Kbytes/s) get a 10M file writing it to an IDE disk (wd1s1a) 10027008 bytes received in 19 seconds (5e+02 Kbytes/s) The hard drive is plenty fast: (home on /dev/sd0s1f) [1119] shadow ~ >iozone 16 8192 ... IOZONE performance measurements: 1915685 bytes/second for writing the file 1827645 bytes/second for reading the file I've also run iozone while ftping a huge file to /dev/null, and the iozone results are within 100kps of the above speeds, however the network speed plummets to 200kps. dmesg output (edited): ... aha0: AHA-1542CF BIOS v2.01-VC.0, enabling mailbox, enabling residuals aha0: reading board settings, dma=5 int=11 200 nSEC ok, using 250 nSEC aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa (aha0:0:0): "MICROP 2217-15MQ1001901 HQ30" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 1685MB (3450902 512 byte sectors) sd0(aha0:0:0): with 2372 cyls, 15 heads, and an average 96 sectors/track (aha0:3:0): "ARCHIVE Python 25588-XXX 2.96" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(aha0:3:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, drive empty wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 325MB (666600 sectors), 1010 cyls, 12 heads, 55 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): wd1: 202MB (415380 sectors), 989 cyls, 12 heads, 35 S/T, 512 B/S ... 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa ep0: aui/bnc/utp[*UTP*] address 00:20:af:10:cd:33 irq 10 bpf: ep0 attached