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Subject: Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD
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Tim Kellers wrote:
> Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer
> Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production
> environment?
Hi,

I've got 860, 1435, 1600, 1950, 2950 all running 6.2-relelase-p7 with
custom kernels.

Watch out though the RAID-1 write speed on w/ FreeBSD is known to be
pathetically the worst thing ever with this raid card:
SAS 5IR internal RAID adapter, PCI-Express
Read speed seems fine though.

mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.12.0
da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Dell VIRTUAL DISK 1028> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da0: 300.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 237464MB (486326272 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30272C)


My other RAID cards doing RAID0, RAID5, and RAID1+0 are all stellar.



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