From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 11:18:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183C31065678 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:18:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@tefre.com) Received: from mta1-filtered.netlife.no (mail.netlife.no [213.187.191.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29AC8FC30 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:18:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@tefre.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.0.68.2]) by mta1-filtered.netlife.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163FD28780; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:18:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netlife.no Received: from mta1.netlife.no ([10.0.68.2]) by localhost (amavis.netlife.no [10.0.68.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mohH5wC32Va5; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from baviandesktop.netlife.no (kontor.netlife.no [217.13.28.50]) by mta1.netlife.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03CB28785; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:18:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47CE816A.6050903@tefre.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:18:02 +0100 From: Erik Stian Tefre User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080127) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alan bryan References: <915419.88748.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <915419.88748.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:18:07 -0000 alan bryan wrote: > I've got a new server with a 3ware 9550SXU with the > Battery. I am using FreeBSD 7.0-Release (tried both > 4BSD and ULE) using AMD64 and the 3ware performance > for writes is just plain horrible. Something is > obviously wrong but I'm not sure what. > Any ideas? Anybody have one of these that's working > with FreeBSD 7? Check you controller firmware version. Last time I checked, the current "stable" firmware release was 3.08.00.016. dmesg | grep Firmware twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9550SX-8LP, 8 ports, Firmware FE9X 3.08.00.016, BIOS BE9X 3.08.00.004 Results from bonnie++ with default settings on my box (7.0-RELEASE, amd64, 480 MB system memory, BBU, write cache enabled, 7 drive raid-5, storsave = balance, NCQ on): Version 1.93d ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1G 275 83 72440 23 24990 6 644 83 76548 15 460.6 6 Latency 47041us 522ms 559ms 139ms 300ms 116ms Version 1.93d ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 5212 12 +++++ +++ 27581 45 8454 20 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ Latency 1147ms 371us 3529us 197ms 15397us 703us -- Erik