From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 06:17:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA14218 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA14212 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:17:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (mangle-qmw.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.95.250]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id GAA17799 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:17:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from md@ruby [138.37.88.139]; by mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5/S-4.0) with ESMTP; id OAA02340; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:12:09 GMT Received: from md@localhost; by ruby.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4/C-3.2); id OAA08617; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:12:08 GMT Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:12:08 GMT From: Mark Dawson Message-Id: <199703251412.OAA08617@ruby.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Compaq Smart-2/P RAID controller results Cc: programmers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We have recently bought a Compaq ProLiant 800 200MHz PPRO and had a chance to try out the SMART-2/P controller with six 4.3GB wide-ultra 1" disks (H RAID5 and H RAID0 below) under 2.2-RELEASE using our locally developed driver (). Below is a comparison of the performance of the Compaq SMART-2/P controller with: the older Compaq SMART controller (M RAID5); a CCD of four legacy Wren-VII disks (I CCD); a logical disk of four older fast-narrow 1GB disks (I RAID5); a striped configuration of the six 4.3GB disks (H RAID0); and an internal 4.3GB wide scsi disk. BONNIE RESULTS-----Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU I CCD 300 1118 97.8 2031 13.1 1195 12.1 1126 97.8 3068 17.5 46.8 3.4 M RAID5 100 3427 82.9 3356 23.3 2265 18.0 4168 90.1 5649 25.2 181.5 8.9 I RAID5 300 1161 99.0 1691 13.6 1688 18.0 1157 98.8 6582 37.8 43.7 2.7 H RAID5 300 5542 49.2 5328 11.9 4826 15.4 9222 86.9 16673 34.4 115.1 2.6 H RAID0 300 11615 98.3 15231 36.9 9096 27.1 10532 98.0 16073 30.7 131.6 2.6 H disk 300 3199 28.0 3277 6.5 1726 4.4 6666 61.0 6271 7.1 100.5 1.6 where RAID5 = distributed data guarding, RAID0 = no fault tolerance striped (e.g. CCD) and the configurations are: I = Compaq ProSignia 300 5/120 16MB (IRON) 2.2-RELEASE I RAID5 = 4 x 1GB fast-narrow = 3GB RAID-5 logical disk on SMART-2/P I CCD = 4 x 1GB Wren-VIIs = 4GB concatenated disk on NCR 53c810 scsi (32 block interleave) H = Compaq ProLiant 800 6/200 96MB (HOTPOINT) 2.2-RELEASE H RAID5 = 6 x 4.3GB wide-ultra = 20GB RAID-5 logical disk on SMART-2/P H RAID0 = 6 x 4.3GB wide-ultra = 24GB RAID-0 logical disk on SMART-2/P H disk = 1 x 4.3GB wide-ultra = 4GB disk on NCR 53c875 wide scsi [from 8th October 1995] M = Compaq ProLiant 1500 5/120 80MB (MANGLE) 2.1-STABLE M RAID5 = 5 x 4.3GB = 16GB RAID-5 logical disk on SMART (old controller) The figures show quite a hit in write performance with RAID5 versus RAID0 but otherwise show that the SMART-2/P is a considerable improvement over Compaq's previous controller. Mark