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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:59:22 -0400
From:      "Derek (freebsd lists)" <482254ac@razorfever.net>
To:        "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: siis/atacam/ata/gmirror 8.0-BETA3 disk performance
Message-ID:  <4A9E6C2A.7090305@razorfever.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A9E6759.7090700@jrv.org>
References:  <4A9E5F34.2090700@razorfever.net> <4A9E6759.7090700@jrv.org>

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James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> Derek (freebsd lists) wrote:
>> I get about 40MB/s read, and 30MB/s write.  See attached
>> bench-*.txt files.
> 
> That's too slow.  As I posted on July 31 I got sustained read rates of
> 875 MB/s across ten disks, through two 3124 cards and four port multipliers.
> 

Right, so directly to a single disks I see 40/30MB/s read/write 
respectively. "Benchmarks" on the Internet peg the i/o to be 
around 100/80MB/s average read on these disks.

> The system I tested was a dual processor Opteron 244 (1.8 GHz) running
> amd64.  Perhaps more important, my disk controllers were on two
> different PCI-X buses with ample bandwidth (100 MHz 64-bit and 133 MHz
> 64-bit).

 From the dmesg, this is a dual 1.4Ghz P3, and the controller is 
standard 32-bit/33Mhz PCI.  Mind you, I think even 80MB/s should 
not saturate the PCI bus, if there's nothing else going on.

> Is your disk controller on a PCI bus, and is there any other PCI traffic
> at the time?

The only traffic would be a little ssh traffic on fxp0, but 
otherwise, I can't think of any other traffic that would be 
occurring.

- Derek



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