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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:34:02 +0200
From:      Michael Worobcuk <mail@michaelworobcuk.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Dell PERC5/i SAS5/5IR  - RAID monitoring
Message-ID:  <4CC93356-890C-43DF-A905-0B9ABC990223@michaelworobcuk.de>

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Hi,
I am trying to set up my first webserver. I bought a Dell Poweredge  
860, provided with a SAS5/IR RAID-Controller.
The problem is now, that I cannot find software, that monitors the  
state of my disks. I already tried megarc from the ports but all I  
get is a short answer that no adapters where found:

######################################################################## 
#
megarc -AllAdpInfo -nolog


          
**********************************************************************
               MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration Utility(FreeBSD)-1.04 
(03-02-2005)
               By LSI Logic Corp.,USA
          
**********************************************************************
           [Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please  
specify
           Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel,  
Id=Target)]

         Type ? as command line arg for help

         No Adapters Found

         Error: No MegaRaid Found
######################################################################## 
#

I had emails with Dell and LSI. Dell does not support FreeBSD and LSI  
says I should go and ask Dell ...


The second thing is, the perfomance. I attached the output of blogbench:

######################################################################## 
#
Frequency = 10 secs
Scratch dir = [/root/bench]
Spawning 3 writers...
Spawning 1 rewriters...
Spawning 5 commenters...
Spawning 100 readers...
Benchmarking for 30 iterations.
The test will run during 5 minutes.

   Nb blogs   R articles    W articles    R pictures    W pictures     
R comments    W comments
          0            0            77             0              
3          1154           120
          0            1            92             0              
4          4086           142
          0          263            58             3             
30          5858           125
          0         1546            20            86             
32           925            81
          1         2875            28          1855             
51           102           115
          3         2646            53          2320             
36          1283           128
          3         1925            42          1339             
25           970            92
          3         2418            17          1076             
61           349           110
          3         2730            13          1278             
86           585           125
          3         2066            12          1154             
69           895           108
          4         1826            20          1356             
48           676            89
          6         2813            83          2227             
11           863           129
          6         2884            59          2204             
29          1273           121
          6         1570            29          1087             
24           558            73
          7         2329            26          1607             
64           587           109
          7         2718            42          1676             
62           901           130
          8         1146            11           691             
36           538            59
          9         2617            41          1580             
54          1248           127
          9         2362            72          1654             
33          1763           131
          9         1154            34           857             
15           741            62
         10         2362            63          1823             
36          1562           127
         10         2458            48          1904             
56          1756           131
         11         1182            28           918             
18           753            63
         13         2485            53          1965             
46          1620           127
         13         2725            64          2106             
44          1561           134
         13         1228             9           821             
39           536            61
         15         2758            52          1765             
49          1064           132
         16         2853            77          1793             
33          1633           141
         16         1174            31           745             
18           742            61
         16         2420            42          1619             
55          1389           123

Final score for writes:            16
Final score for reads :          2025
   
######################################################################## 
#

(Just to remember: Pentium D; 2,8GHZ; 4 GB RAM; 2 x 500GB SATA RAID1)
That is pretty poor, isn't it ?


I am wondering now, if somebody has experience with the PERC5/I  
Controller. Would it be possible to monitor the disks, if I would buy  
that controller ?
Any hints are highly appreciated.

Thanks

Michael



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