Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:51 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@ridecharge.com> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD Message-ID: <46FAADCB.9080407@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <46FA9AC3.60202@ridecharge.com> References: <46FA8669.2030508@wallnet.com> <46FA9AC3.60202@ridecharge.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Thanks! I plan on using RAID 5 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > 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. > > > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46FAADCB.9080407>