Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:44:57 +0100 From: Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Disk performance on ESXi with FreeBSD 7.1 Message-ID: <4991BD19.1000409@sebster.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I'm running FreeBSD on ESXi but I'm having serious issues with disk performance, and I'm wondering if it might have something to do with the scsi driver (or the virtual hardware not returning proper values for its capabilities or something).. I have both a FreeBSD-amd64 and Linux Ubuntu 8.10-amd64 virtual machine (8GB disk, 512MB RAM, 2-CPU) and run dbench on both of them. The linux machine is out of the box, not optimized for vmware, VMI/paravirtualization is off, as is VMotion. The results for dbench <n> are as follows: <n> 1 2 4 freebsd 12.0009 13.6348 12.9402 (MB/s) linux 376.145 651.314 634.649 (MB/s) Thus there is approx a factor 30 difference for dbench 1, and I cannot imagine linux being that much faster just due to some performance tuning kernel parameters. I tried both the VMware LSI Logic controller and the BusLogic controller. Here is the relevant dmesg output of both: LSI: mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0x1080-0x10ff mem 0xf4810000-0xf4810fff irq 17 at device 16.0 on pci0 mpt0: [ITHREAD] mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.0.0 da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <VMware Virtual disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 3.300MB/s transfers da0: 8192MB (16777216 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1044C) BusLogic: bt0: <Buslogic Multi-Master SCSI Host Adapter> port 0x1060-0x107f mem 0xf4810000-0xf481001f irq 17 at device 16.0 on pci0 bt0: BT-958 FW Rev. 5.07B Ultra Wide SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 192 CCBs bt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] bt0: [ITHREAD] da0 at bt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <VMware Virtual disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz DT, offset 15, 16bit) da0: 8192MB (16777216 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1044C) Something that I noticed was the extremely slow transfer rates mentioned with the da0 device. When I'm running dbench the server is not very busy: CPU: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 6.4% system, 0.7% interrupt, 92.7% idle 1172 root 1 -8 0 4604K 1228K biowr 1 0:41 4.98% dbench I really want to get this working because I want to run a big production site on FreeBSD. But currently the disk speed is just unworkable. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas about how to get proper disk speeds on FreeBSD, making it a viable guest operating system. If any other info is needed, I'm willing to invest quite some time to provide it! Regards, Sebastiaan [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 01 0 + 0 *H Q00lS| 6$1-~j0 *H 0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 080630135157Z 090630135157Z0h10Uvan Erk10U* Sebastiaan10USebastiaan van Erk1"0 *H sebster@sebster.com0"0 *H 0 Va\bEnݚa<M8ʄ^tv>x73bohi2oqS_¶Bm^p* I x"9 pt!j ar#)n)^? 'z<).+Ѐ4ig R'UP*\Ւ ,?.;?f BܯTzM IDվCK*3Yŧ mcaztxʐsq/ 00.0 U 0sebster@sebster.com0 U 0 0 *H KT4W6ӽq] tS` %f1 G:H b zJj$EjE'JV~-VbVnJZ E/`@@04!+T: c پf`$Z=1#|oG[OB RG00lS| 6$1-~j0 *H 0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 080630135157Z 090630135157Z0h10Uvan Erk10U* Sebastiaan10USebastiaan van Erk1"0 *H sebster@sebster.com0"0 *H 0 Va\bEnݚa<M8ʄ^tv>x73bohi2oqS_¶Bm^p* I x"9 pt!j ar#)n)^? 'z<).+Ѐ4ig R'UP*\Ւ ,?.;?f BܯTzM IDվCK*3Yŧ mcaztxʐsq/ 00.0 U 0sebster@sebster.com0 U 0 0 *H KT4W6ӽq] tS` %f1 G:H b zJj$EjE'JV~-VbVnJZ E/`@@04!+T: c پf`$Z=1#|oG[OB RG0?0 0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10U Thawte Consulting1(0&U Certification Services Division1$0"UThawte Personal Freemail CA1+0) *H personal-freemail@thawte.com0 030717000000Z 130716235959Z0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA00 *H 0 Ħ<UsUNʙZ hup [v :aQP 0cZ,p+Z?qV˯< 6$*+w=+>@dקe*TH<a@ dr` 00U 0 0CU <0:08642http://crl.thawte.com/ThawtePersonalFreemailCA.crl0 U 0)U "0 0 10UPrivateLabel2-1380 *H HP . fgCL!6 -6/ P p<ab:~ t%Pb'qW%ݩ9 Oe_N4[5MwV!x!5$ F]_eO1q0m0v0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CAS| 6$1-~j0 + 0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 090210174457Z0# *H 18i ^V' 0_ *H 1R0P0 `He0 *H 0*H 0 *H @0+0 *H (0 +71x0v0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CAS| 6$1-~j0 *H 1xv0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CAS| 6$1-~j0 *H q Y7E!);1 93*o˷Rp<O*%mac!FcTĭ嶋^#G1Jėd fE;B*qMLBY-n.W aSxq/Kwռ=EL͠mK9b-~z{>x+|YvS\\T~l؟zΈ í\F/w0^i 80fk2 hpvvnJ}k B
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