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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:57:21 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   slow disk performance
Message-ID:  <19990218215721.55546@right.PCS>

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  I have a system with the following:

ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x01 int a irq 11 on pci0.6.0
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <Quantum XP32150W L915> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da1: 20.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 2050MB (4199760 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <IBM DCAS-34330W S65A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da0: 40.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)


Basically, an ASUS motherboard with an onboard Adaptec, along with 
two 7200 rpm disks.  However, I can't seem to get more than 6MB/sec
out of the drives, when doing sequential reads or writes:

	dd if=/dev/rda1 of=/dev/null bs=64k &
	dd if=/dev/rda0 of=/dev/null bs=64k &
	iostat 1

      tty             fd0              da0              da1             cpu
 tin tout  KB/t tps  MB/s   KB/t tps  MB/s   KB/t tps  MB/s  us ni sy in id
   0   77  0.00   0  0.00  64.00 115  7.17  64.00 103  6.42   0  0  1  1 98
   0   76  0.00   0  0.00  64.00 102  6.37  64.00 100  6.25   0  0  1  1 98
   0   76  0.00   0  0.00  64.00 118  7.36  64.00 103  6.44   0  0  5  0 95


Is this the maximum I can expect to get from the drives?  I get the same
speeds when doing sequential writes as well; I would think it can do 
etter than this.  There are no "tagged opening" messages in the logfile,
so this is with 64 tags.
--
Jonathan


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