From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 00:36:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED0216A410 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAED13C455 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lydianconcepts@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so400411nze for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 17:36:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mXrA8SVoYoUbG31m1KegP2z2E2aodgCHdSAHR9t6iCUYYg23dqMYXvtl1FghpMLjKeh82vF/oKPyvb7RXha2kMKUcCB4rjG4SFxevg7E2/Zj7GszYhtEYFx7mLrqHYBl7/k4PTfMXRv5yCDxbwXw1qGPsOUiZ34HUDT/eQiqVkE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q1r0eH3hGw2QThcVYs2M5PWQYLp5SNrdIJpeYg1MTPednAF7nLFb7c9tzGc6i4zk4CiA1pJIvacPIEa2XffndJC6Uzbz2QW1rXwD5e33Rl9f2UrbawuXoWryqL/YJXNPOBO5WEEfZ7zXAxy5OOsWODa162u3tNUcYkXU6feyZWs= Received: by 10.115.22.1 with SMTP id z1mr1865831wai.1179275810875; Tue, 15 May 2007 17:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.24.2 with HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2007 17:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7579f7fb0705151736hf1118cck71898d572f817475@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:36:45 -0700 From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "Randy Schultz" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <464474F0.3040306@tomjudge.com> <7579f7fb0705110735h1a65ef7atcab00bdbc25224d6@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:41:32 +0000 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid] X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:36:52 -0000 filesystem? ext3? I want one of these failing machines *in my lab*. On 5/14/07, Randy Schultz wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: > > -}Time frame to resolution involves getting a machine into my lab that > -}evidences the poor performance and the time to sort out what the > -}problem is and fix it. Remote access doesn't work for me on this one > -}(contact me offline as to why). > > Hey Matthew, > > FWIW, I installed fedora core 5 on the box. The difference was significant. > Writes, though bursty, increased significantly. Reads increased by 1-2 orders > of magnitude. I've attached the output of blogbench for fc5 FWIW. > > Being new to all this, what would be the next step? Should I file a bug > report? Or perhaps I should be asking what your timeline is? All I have to > offer for help is remote access, which in this case doesn't work for you, or > perhaps testing as my C skills are fairly pathetic. ;> > > -- > Randy (schulra@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 <*> > > Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. > - H. Joseph Gerber > >