From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 4 13: 3:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0D237B424 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05211; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009042017.NAA05211@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: "FreeBSDHW" Subject: Re: Problems installing 4.1 on 3ware RAID 5200 & 6200 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:38:34 EDT." <4.2.2.20000904152548.03405b38@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:17:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Newfs doesn't use aligned buffers... > > Thanks for pointing this out. One thing that is not clear to me, how does > this explain the very poor performance in bonnie ? If the poor bonnie > results were being triggered by the alignment problem, would it not show > equally poor results in RAID0 mode as well ? If the array was still initialising, bonnie's results would be pretty terrible as well. Try creating an array and rebooting when it starts the profiling pass, and see if it fares any better for you. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message