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Date:      08 Nov 1999 22:34:38 +0200
From:      Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk>
To:        Yuri Vorobyev <vorob@yamalinfo.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ccd performance degradation & reboot problem
Message-ID:  <85zowoiuxt.fsf@dialup422.apex.dp.ua>
In-Reply-To: Yuri Vorobyev's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:56:34 %2B0500"
References:  <4497.991108@yamalinfo.ru>

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	Hi Yuri!

On 08 Nov 99 at 08:56, "Yuri" (Yuri Vorobyev) wrote:

 Yuri> I have made some tests with bonnie.

 Yuri> 3.1-RELEASE -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
 Yuri> --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
 Yuri> --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
 Yuri> K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 100 10085 83.9 13683 38.7 4808 15.5 7716 75.0
 Yuri> 14429 26.2 213.7 4.4

          
 Yuri> FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 8

 Yuri>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
 Yuri> --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
 Yuri> --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
 Yuri> K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 100 1866 16.1 1802 4.3 1828 6.1 8177 80.1 14384
 Yuri> 25.7 213.8 5.2

 Yuri> Kernel config was the same.

 Yuri> Write speed has fallen very much!!

	This may not be related to the problem's cause, but I usually try
	different interleave factors using a script which records bonnie's
	output for later analysis. Differences are significant for various
	interleaves, but never falls below actual drive speed. So, this
	rather looks like a wrong way but may be useful information in
	future. (BTW, my ccd uses interleave factor of 256 and used to be
	512 in previous configuration. Both values based on benchmark
	results.)

	You may also make sure that you didn't check your da0 drive second
	time. 8) There are few perfomance issues about IBM DCAS drives.

 Yuri> syncing disks... done (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: CDB: 35 0
 Yuri> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0
 Yuri> (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) invalid command operation code sks:c0,0
 Yuri> Rebooting...

 Yuri> or

 Yuri> #reboot

 Yuri> syncing disks... done (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: CDB: 35 0
 Yuri> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:ahc0:0:1:0) error code 9 Rebooting...

 Yuri> Error code change randomly (?)

 Yuri> And freeze...

	Have you had a look on server's console during benchmarking? I'd
	expect some SCSI-related error messages on it. You may suffer
	either from hardware problems or from a driver bug. The second
	possibility seems to be rather improbable.

	But the first one is practically definite. Check your cable
	connection, run SCSI BIOS hardware test. I.e. make sure that da1
	works properly. Or not...

 Yuri> System have ADAPTEC 2940 ULTRA / ULTRA W BIOS v1.25

	Ahm, I read some recomendations about upgrading SCSI BIOS to any of
	1.3x version. Actually it's been done for my board.
-- 
    /Voland			Vadim Belman
				E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk


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