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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:10:24 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        ANDREAS.KLEMM.AK@bayer-ag.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: It%s not the write cache on 3.0-STABLE and not tagged comma
Message-ID:  <199902121610.JAA34695@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902120803350.17711-100000@feral-gw> from Matthew Jacob at "Feb 12, 1999  8: 3:52 am"

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Matthew Jacob wrote...
> 
> Is read performance okay?
> Also what's "poor"?

Read performance is fine. (about 12MB/sec)  "poor" means between 1 and
3MB/sec.

I'll forward you his original mail, I think it probably got nuked by
Majordomo's message size filter.

> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> 
> > Matthew Jacob wrote...
> > > 
> > > What was the problem?
> > 
> > He is getting poor performance for sequential writes with a Seagate disk
> > under CAM.  Write throughput to the disk is fairly erratic.  (i.e., lots of
> > ups and downs)
> > 
> > He has the problem under 2.2.7 with tagged queueing enabled, but not when
> > he disables tagged queueing.  The problem occurs under 3.0 with or
> > without tagged queueing.
> > 
> > I told him to disable write caching, since I have seen similar problems
> > when write caching is enabled, but that didn't seem to fix the problem.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Ken
> > -- 
> > Kenneth Merry
> > ken@plutotech.com
> > 

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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