From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 13:12:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE47116A418 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEF213C4D3 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcagle@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so370299nzf for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:12:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s+UN9O0vMQPPafo+WvUX4y3PLRM+oWVDt+q6kqZAQSVDxadjQE61kNoFTVxXwH2IDcY0FFh/0HFW0ckM+CxBzNAYD17tJijwlqCAiPRJHjjcZB/7oNE+Yi6h9DG+QsXFLiY/bmHv8JTDxJwxOLk2jxfsZ5wRFbJIPjO+jqeMwTs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gdbZm6CayqfpL03/yTRiS6nR08KVxyHtu3K09RAadFz406BAU2vHuYDGCDzPTFBt7yj799N22RccEkcnb1+YF7RVax0JR2vm/H5c7lHy7s4IeS1zXg007dRRa7WlzbyrTqCeTZQu9Mhkd5+G/J4Y+ZkPrNJIMOnt2PNPRQik/wo= Received: by 10.65.51.4 with SMTP id d4mr995557qbk.1188479525330; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.52.13 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6863f0c90708300612s5917986dv70a132e35eb3a5d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:12:05 -0500 From: "John Cagle" To: "Paulius Stakauskas" In-Reply-To: <46D660D0.3020804@agservice.lt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46D660D0.3020804@agservice.lt> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL385 G2 Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:12:25 -0000 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 wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on this server. > > # dmesg|grep ciss > ciss0: 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: > at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) > 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.