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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:59:30 -0700
From:      "Patrick C" <pcloches@gmail.com>
To:        "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3
Message-ID:  <34394a3a0808011559u764842fdv4aad492d61d73faf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080610001335.E50875@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <484D9C13.9090607@baylessfamily.org> <20080610001335.E50875@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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This is a very important point. By turning the cache on, you have not
resolved an underlying performance issue, if there even is one. Please
try dd again with a well-sized bs= parameter, or use some more
accurate reporting like iozone, sysbench, etc.

Also, I am not sure how much memory is on the card, but that is likely
COMPLETELY in cache at that point so you're not learning anything.
Write a couple gigs to get some real numbers.

-Patrick

2008/6/9 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>:
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile
>> 165760+0 records in
>> 165759+0 records out
>> 84868608 bytes transferred in 25.028232 secs (3390915 bytes/sec)
>
>> I think I ought to be able to get more than 3.2MB/sec out of this card,
>
> with default 512 bytes blocks - not much more
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