From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 20 15: 4:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA39C11190 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:04:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id QAA14767; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:02:28 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199902202302.QAA14767@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Feb 20, 1999 1:15:48 pm" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:02:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, paulz@trantor.xs4all.nl, ken@plutotech.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote... > > > Well, yes, it can if the number of tagged commands you throw at a device > overloads the sequencer so it can never really get started on the first > command. If you don't disconnect, you don't throw multiple commands at > the disk. I don't remember from the original mail whether or not this was > a raw device or not. I think he was doing sequential writes through the filesystem, using iozone and bonnie. The Seagate he was complaining about is a Medalist Pro, I think. So it's not one of their high-end disks, and could conceivably get overwhelmed by a whole lot of traffic. > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > :This did not improve anything , but I think I have found the couse. > > :In that modepage there is a DISC value which was 0 on the IBM and 1 on the > > :Seagate. I remembered a ' Enable disconnect' option in the Adaptec 2940 bios, > > :setting this to 'off' for both harddisks led to a huge performance increase on > > :the Seagate. If I also enable Ultra mode iozone write goes from 1.5 MB/s > > :to 12 MB/s ( a factor of 8 !!!). Hmm, I missed that tidbit when I first read the message. So what happens if you enable disconnection, and run at Ultra speeds? In general, you want to run with disconnection enabled. > > : Paul > > : > > :-- > > :Paul van der Zwan paulz @ trantor.xs4all.nl > > > > There's something wrong. Disconnection should not cause that sort > > of performance decrease. Disconnection is necessary if you want to > > maintain preformance with more then one scsi device on the scsi bus. > > > > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon > > > > Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message