Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:25:42 +0200 From: Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI) Message-ID: <199709091225.OAA14331@kairos> In-Reply-To: <199709090206.TAA00939@usr07.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Tue, 9 Sep 1997 02:06:08 %2B0000 (GMT))
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It is unclear to me whether you are having problems on the disk on the
NCR controller or the Adaptec controller.
Both, I got limited to ~20 user process xfers/s under load on all devices
including the single disk on the motherboard adaptec.
The fact that you are running 2.2.2 does not fill me with hope; I was
under the impression that 2.2.2 did not support tagged command queueing
on the NCR, at least, and perhaps not the Adaptec as well.
This would mean that you could have only a single concurrent operation
outstandaing at one time -- which would certaily explain the performance
problems you are seeing.
But can lack of tagged command queueing explain the combination of good
performance unloaded and bad with one or more cpu bound processes?
You will have to check the list archives, but I believe there were also
a number of issues with the 53c810a. I have several 53c810b's, so I
can't test for you.
I have no problem with issues with the 810a affecting devices connected
to it, but is it probable it could affect devices connected to the adaptec?
_
Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se
PS How do I find out if tagged queueing is supported? Maybe time
to try -current?
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