From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 19:24:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53549106566B for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:24:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C758FC1F for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m24JOSF2009559; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:24:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m24JOOt0096588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:24:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200803041924.m24JOOt0096588@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:24:34 -0500 To: alan bryan , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <497790.39526.qm@web50507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <497790.39526.qm@web50507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: 7.0-Release and 3ware 9550SXU w/BBU - horrible write performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:24:29 -0000 At 12:50 PM 3/4/2008, alan bryan wrote: >Hi, > >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. Not sure about 7.0, but I have this card on a 6.3 box. Doing something simple like % cat /dev/zero > big % iostat -c 100 tty da0 pass0 cpu tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id 0 0 53.92 6 0.31 0.00 0 0.00 3 0 0 0 96 3 197 4.00 1 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100 1 64 127.94 1100 137.42 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 49 5 46 0 63 128.00 1012 126.50 0.00 0 0.00 2 0 34 5 59 0 63 128.00 969 121.13 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 30 2 66 0 62 127.85 758 94.67 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 26 4 69 0 61 127.82 1252 156.25 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 50 8 42 0 63 127.59 542 67.59 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 26 1 72 0 61 127.66 1026 127.90 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 47 5 49 1 87 127.56 513 63.97 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 19 4 77 0 61 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100 Shows pretty OK write performance. % dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/big bs=1024k count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes transferred in 8.646134 secs (121276863 bytes/sec) This is on RAID10 on 4 Segate ST380811AS drives. 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 3.60.04.003 twa0: <3ware 9000 series Storage Controller> port 0xac00-0xac3f mem 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff,0xff2ff000-0xff2fffff irq 16 at device 3.0 on pci2 twa0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9550SX-4LP, 4 ports, Firmware FE9X 3.01.01.028, BIOS BE9X 3.01.00.024 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers da0: 152566MB (312455168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19449C) I have write cache enabled and performance set for the StorSav. Its in a PCI-x slot as well. ---Mike