From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 19:24:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D069816A412 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:24:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@midden.org) Received: from midden.org (midden.org [86.54.4.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448C913C44C for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:24:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@midden.org) Received: from www.midden.org (localhost.midden.org [127.0.0.1]) by midden.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41618115D4; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:23:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 86.54.4.134 (proxying for 86.54.4.134) (SquirrelMail authenticated user steve) by www.midden.org with HTTP; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:23:54 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <65531.86.54.4.134.1168975434.squirrel@www.midden.org> In-Reply-To: <20070116131357.1c8972eb.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <53186.86.54.4.134.1168964729.squirrel@www.midden.org> <20070116131357.1c8972eb.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:23:54 -0000 (UTC) From: "Steven Lowry" To: "Bill Moran" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:24:35 -0000 On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Steven Lowry" : >> >> I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly >> everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. >> >> The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in >> windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x >> with >> four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting up to >> 60MB/s >> transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting up to 9MB/s. I followed the >> instructions in the handbook for tuning disks and I have set dma on. >> Being new to unix, I have no idea what to try or get system information >> too continue troubleshooting. >> If anyone could point me in the right direction or to appropriate >> documentation >> it would be much appreciated. > > You should provide the details of how you arrived at those numbers. > Please provide details of your testing methodology. > > While it's impossible to compare apples to apples when pitting Windows > against FreeBSD, you at least want to be comparing two fruits -- not > apples and buffalo steaks or something like that. Thanks for your reply, I repeatedly copied a 700MB file from one harddrive to the Raid 5 Drive, a different file every time so caching won't be a large factor and consistantly got 8-9MB/s. Copying such large files is something I do on a daily basis. Hardly scientific, more of a real use scenario. Transfer was done via KDE. Here is the dmesg output for the controller; amr0: mem 0xfa2f0000-0xfa2fffff,0xfe800000-0xfe8fffff irq 30 at device 14.0 on pci5 amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller amr0: Firmware 814D, BIOS H431, 128MB RAM amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 712392MB (1458978816 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Not sure what is meant by the delete line. Motherboard is an Iwill DK8N, Nforce3 Chipset, AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge. The nvidia raid is populated by two WD raptors in a raid 1, this holds FBSD, the LSI is for data storage. Any other information I could supply? Steve... -- Folding@home http://folding.stanford.edu/