From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 10:31:46 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 DFA3B16A46B for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:31:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from filip.palian@hyperion.pl) Received: from kopytko.hyperion.pl (unregister198031239087.c31.msk.pl [87.239.31.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B76E13C44B for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:31:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from filip.palian@hyperion.pl) Received: from localhost (kopytko [127.0.0.1]) by kopytko.hyperion.pl (Postfix by dzikus) with ESMTP id 4A0B826F78 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:09:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kopytko.hyperion.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kopytko [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23840-06 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:09:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unregister084009144195.c9.msk.pl [195.144.9.84]) by kopytko.hyperion.pl (Postfix by dzikus) with ESMTP id 50D3826669 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46692AC6.30700@hyperion.pl> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:09:10 +0200 From: Filip Palian User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by dziki-amavis Subject: Dell/Perc5 raid/MPT SAS Integrated Raid Write Performance 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: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:31:47 -0000 Hi folks, I've also encountered problems with write performnce on PE860, below are some details. DELL PE860 ========== product: ======== chipset LSI SAS 1068B0 LSI SAS 1068-IR 06.50.00 mptbios 6.06.00.02 (2006.04.05) disks: ====== 2x ST3160812AS in RAID1 dmesg: ====== Copyright (c) 1992-2007 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 6.2-RELEASE #4: Wed May 30 10:34:00 CEST 2007 root@ghostface1.expro.dmz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GF-sn Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz (2133.42-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f7 Stepping = 7 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0xe3bd,CX16,,> AMD Features=0x20100800 AMD Features2=0x1 Cores per package: 4 real memory = 4831838208 (4608 MB) avail memory = 4130754560 (3939 MB) ACPI APIC Table: ... mpt0: port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfe9fc000-0xfe9fffff,0xfe9e0000-0xfe9effff irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci2 mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.12.0 mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16 mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required). mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12 mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x12 (ACK not required). mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12 mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x12 (ACK not required). mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16 mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required). mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0xb mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0xb (ACK not required). da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 blogbench: ========== Frequency = 10 secs Scratch dir = [/var/tmp/] Spawning 3 writers... Spawning 1 rewriters... Spawning 5 commenters... Spawning 100 readers... Benchmarking for 30 iterations. The test will run during 5 minutes. ... Final score for writes: 17 Final score for reads : 2026 Currently I'm during upgrading firmware and applaying upgrades from Dell, if this will help I let you know. Regards, Filip Palian