From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sun Dec 13 14:27:41 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD835A42307 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A513319EC for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.85) for freebsd-current@freebsd.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1a87cb-001zYU-7R>; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:27:33 +0100 Received: from x5ce137ac.dyn.telefonica.de ([92.225.55.172] helo=hermann) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.85) for freebsd-current@freebsd.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1a87ca-001D3Y-Vm>; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:27:33 +0100 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:27:12 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" To: FreeBSD CURRENT Subject: Lenovo E540: USB 3.0 HDD/ZFS: painful performance < 3 MB/s Message-ID: <20151213152712.1e640c17@hermann> Organization: FU Berlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 92.225.55.172 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:27:42 -0000 Running recent CURRENT as buildworld of today on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 with most recent Firmware 2.22 performs very bad having a USB 3.0 external HDD formatted with ZFS. The casing is a FANTEC Alu U3e casing which claims to be SATA 6GB ready, having external USB 3.0 and eSATA connectors, which shows n FreeBSD CURRENT (FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #10 r292162: Sun Dec 13 13:27:19 CET 2015 amd64): [...] mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: \^A Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #10 r292162: Sun Dec 13 13:27:19 CET 2015 root@hermann:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SARIN amd64 FreeBSD clang version 3.7.0 (tags/RELEASE_370/final 246257) 20150906 VT(efifb): resolution 640x480 info: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz (2494.27-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x306c3 Family=0x6 Model=0x3c Stepping=3 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x7fdafbbf AMD Features=0x2c100800 AMD Features2=0x21 Structured Extended Features=0x27ab XSAVE Features=0x1 VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB) avail memory = 16488468480 (15724 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: as [...] ugen0.2: at usbus0 umass0: on usbus0 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device da0: Serial Number 00000000000000000000 da0: 400.000MB/s transfers da0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors) da0: quirks=0x2 Writing to the raw, uninitialized device via dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512M count=10G gives ~ 30 MB/s. The drive has been partioned with GPT, one partition covering the whole drive with type freebsd-zfs which has been initialized with a ZFS volume. What is wrong here? Kind regards, oh