From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 07:34:48 2009 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 6A8911065679 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA17D8FC12 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8U7GaUe045344 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:46:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:46:32 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090930060202.45527.qmail@avocado.salatschuessel.net> In-Reply-To: <20090930060202.45527.qmail@avocado.salatschuessel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1804273.9tfxWlXUQS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909301646.35019.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:35:43 +0000 Cc: freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org, Oliver Lehmann Subject: Re: (no subject) 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: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:34:48 -0000 --nextPart1804273.9tfxWlXUQS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > A colleague of mine has the same disks in a new Nvidia Atom 330 > system and he told me that he reaches around 70MB/sec write speed > with a single large file on a single disk running linux 2.6. > > I hooked the disk up to my client: > > FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 28 12:59:47 CEST 2009 > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (2200.10-MHz K8-class CPU) > usable memory =3D 2138615808 (2039 MB) > atapci0: port > 0xd000-0xd007,0xc800-0xc803,0xc400-0xc407,0xc000-0xc003,0xb800-0xb80f >,0xb400 -0xb4ff irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0 > ad4: 953869MB at ata2-master SATA150 > > because the on-board controller is a VIA 6420 I had to set the > SATA150 Jumper on the harddisk to have the controller detect the > drive. I found I was getting timeouts with this controller and exactly those=20 drives even with the SATA150 jumper connected. In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked=20 fine. That said I gave up on the hardware as I couldn't get the motherboard to=20 boot off the CF/IDE adapter so I got an AMD SB700 based board which=20 works well (fingers crossed :) I didn't do any stand alone drive performance tests though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1804273.9tfxWlXUQS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKwwXS5ZPcIHs/zowRAoA1AKCD0xKQmis2caFdrd/NU8LFz0aqsACfYN1s G6bdsvVLat8mRZPUOEEDMto= =dRku -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1804273.9tfxWlXUQS--