From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Aug 21 14: 9:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from funnel.cisco.com (funnel.cisco.com [161.44.131.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A556F37B407 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (root@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [161.44.149.69]) by funnel.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA10019 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:09:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover@localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7LL6Ua02170 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:06:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <200108212106.f7LL6Ua02170@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for second opinion on Vinum speed on 4.4 RC1... Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:06:30 -0400 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running a couple of mirrored disks under vinum. I've done the config, and started the second plex of the mirror to bring the drive up. After, oh, about 6 or so hours, the subdisk is 47% complete. systat -vmstat is showing the first drive in the mirror doing 2.53MB/s at 12% utilization, and the second drive doing 2.53MB/s at 87% utilization. The drives are ~80GB. The configuration is: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e drive b device /dev/ad3s1e volume vol0 plex name vol0.p0 org concat vol vol0 plex name vol0.p1 org concat vol vol0 sd name vol0.p0.s0 drive a plex vol0.p0 len 160071332s driveoffset 265s plexoff set 0s sd name vol0.p1.s0 drive b plex vol0.p1 len 160071332s driveoffset 265s plexoff set 0s Overall, I'm not complaining, as it all seems to be working the way I'd expect, and I have no crash dumps to share (a milestone in and of itself :) ). However, it just seems to be going really slow, as the 80GB SCSI disk set took like 30 minutes to come up. I really can't believe that the IDE disks are 20 times slower. So, if someone has a set of disks they can mirror, can they try it, and let me know the overall performance? MB/s or how long it takes to get two "N" GB drives in synch would be useful. The one thing that I can think of that may be biting me is that these drives are master/slave on the same controller... I've been too cheap to go buy another Promise controller to get a couple of extra busses... -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message