From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 7 6:56:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A4037B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grogged.dyndns.org (c-24-118-164-4.mn.client2.attbi.com [24.118.164.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B9D43E6A for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@grogged.dyndns.org) Received: by grogged.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A31911680D; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:50:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grogged.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BADCD211; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:50:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:50:21 -0500 (CDT) From: matt To: Lawrence Farr Cc: Subject: RE: 3ware controller performance problems In-Reply-To: <008001c2564a$d7cab570$c80ba8c0@lfarr> Message-ID: <20020907084255.A5368-100000@grogged.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It's a Raid-0 array, 64k stripes, twin Western Digital WD1200JB's (120gb, 8mb cache, 7200rpm). Here's a copy of my dmesg in plain text: Another quick thing to mention - the "can't assign resources" messages (as you can see below) are new. I tried updating the firmware to the latest revision from 3ware, and those fun new messages started showing up on bootup, although performance only increased slightly (only takes 7.5 minutes instead of over 10 to untar the ports tree, still way slower than a straight udma/66 ata disk). Copyright (c) 1992-2002 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 5.0-DP1 #0: Sun Apr 7 02:51:42 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0504000. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 400910705 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x80000800 real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 125300736 (122364K bytes) K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdb30 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: mem 0xeb000000-0xeb000fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE3X 1.00.43.003, BIOS BEXX 1.04.00.009 rl0: port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xeb001000-0xeb0010ff ir q 14 at device 11.0 on pci0 rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:48:62:64 miibus0: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x374-0x377,0x17 0-0x17f,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1ff irq 0 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 orm0: