Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:12:05 -0500 From: "John Cagle" <jcagle@gmail.com> To: "Paulius Stakauskas" <paulius.stakauskas@agservice.lt> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL385 G2 Server Message-ID: <6863f0c90708300612s5917986dv70a132e35eb3a5d2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46D660D0.3020804@agservice.lt> References: <46D660D0.3020804@agservice.lt>
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You will see improved write performance on RAID5 if you install the BBWC (Battery-backed write cache) option; but maybe you already have that installed? On 8/30/07, Paulius Stakauskas <paulius.stakauskas@agservice.lt> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on this server. > > # dmesg|grep ciss > ciss0: <HP Smart Array P400> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem > 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff,0xfddf0000-0xfddf0fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6 > ciss0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da1 at ciss0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > > # camcontrol devlist -v > scbus0 on ciss0 bus 0: > <COMPAQ RAID 1 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) > <COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) > scbus1 on ciss0 bus 32: > scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0: > < > at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0) > > For first everything seems to be fine, but the problem is while copying > files from da0 to da1, take a look at the statistics: > > File: 635 MB > > copy from da0 to da1 = 58sec. > copy from da1 to da0 = ~9sec. > > Is this normal or not? I know that it's RAID-5 but.., I think it takes > too long to copy from da0 to da1. > > By the way: how to turn on those led's on the server? Because all of the > "power supply, inter lock, over temp..." and so on are not working also > "UID" is also off.
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