From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Mar 30 19:23:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp45-24.dis.org [216.240.45.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A1937B400 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:22:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2TMRYN01423; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200203292227.g2TMRYN01423@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Lukas Ertl , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ciss driver and tagged queuing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:42:07 MST." <20020328134207.A22421@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:27:34 -0800 From: Michael Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > ciss1: base transfer speed: 135.168MB/sec > > Hmm, that value is a bit funny, although I suppose for a RAID board it's > kinda hard to know exactly what to put there. Yeah; I cheated and just used the theoretical maximum slow/narrow PCI throughput. I'd really like to be able to report a "this value makes no sense" figure, since there's no good way to compute a "base transfer speed" for an array. > > Apart from that: the ciss driver is fairly new AFAIK, I didn't find a lot > > of references to it on the web. Would you recommend it for production use? > > Is there any testing going for userland tools (status control a.s.o.)? > > Mike Smith would be the one to ask. It's in production at Yahoo!, although still a bit green. There's documentation available from Compaq that would let you write a basic monitoring tool (I can help here), but no chance of Compaq's own tools being released anytime soon. If you were really masochistic, you could probably get all of Compaq's monitoring goo for your machine running under Linux emulation, but I suspect it'd be a job of work. HTH, Mike -- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message