From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 11:09:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5912716A4D1; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sockar.homeip.net (tourist.net1.nerim.net [62.212.109.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E5B43D31; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:09:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amon@sockar.homeip.net) Received: from sockar.homeip.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sockar.homeip.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBAJAupd016476; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:10:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from amon@sockar.homeip.net) Received: (from amon@localhost) by sockar.homeip.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hBAJAutN016475; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:10:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from amon) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:10:56 +0100 From: amon@sockar.homeip.net To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20031210201056.C206@ra.aabs> References: <20031210173002.B206@ra.aabs> <20031210094420.D6877@pooker.samsco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031210094420.D6877@pooker.samsco.home>; from scottl@freebsd.org on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:48:26AM -0700 cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance problem with adaptec 2120S X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:09:44 -0000 Le 10/12/2003 à 09:48, Scott Long a écrit: > > The 2120S has some unfortunate issues that make it a slow card. However, To what extent is it slow ? Are these issues firmware related ? (ie will upgrading when a new firmware release comes out help ?) > it should not be nearly as slow as you claim. Do you have the 'aaccli' > tools installed? If not, you can either install it from the FreeBSD ports > collection, or use the Linux version that is found on the 2120S CD under > emulation. That should be able to tell you basic information about the > array and if there are any problems. More advanced information can be > gathered by using the 'diag dump text' command in aaccli. If you could > send me the output from that, I might be able to help. Oops, I had forgotten to enable write caching while creating the volume so the performance is now acceptable. Thanks for the help. -- Herve Boulouis