Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:50:21 -0500 (CDT) From: matt <matt@grogged.dyndns.org> To: Lawrence Farr <freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 3ware controller performance problems Message-ID: <20020907084255.A5368-100000@grogged.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <008001c2564a$d7cab570$c80ba8c0@lfarr>
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It's a Raid-0 array, 64k stripes, twin Western Digital WD1200JB's (120gb, 8mb cache, 7200rpm). Here's a copy of my dmesg in plain text: Another quick thing to mention - the "can't assign resources" messages (as you can see below) are new. I tried updating the firmware to the latest revision from 3ware, and those fun new messages started showing up on bootup, although performance only increased slightly (only takes 7.5 minutes instead of over 10 to untar the ports tree, still way slower than a straight udma/66 ata disk). Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.0-DP1 #0: Sun Apr 7 02:51:42 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0504000. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 400910705 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (400.91-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX> AMD Features=0x80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow!> real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 125300736 (122364K bytes) K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdb30 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 0xeb000000-0xeb000fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE3X 1.00.43.003, BIOS BEXX 1.04.00.009 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xeb001000-0xeb0010ff ir q 14 at device 11.0 on pci0 rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:48:62:64 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto atapci0: <AcerLabs Aladdin ATA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x374-0x377,0x17 0-0x17f,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1ff irq 0 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcc000-0xccfff,0xc0000-0xc9fff on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 fdc0: <enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port 0x3f7,0x3f 0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 pmtimer0 on isa0 ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq) unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) acd0: CD-RW <LITE-ON LTR-32123S> at ata1-slave PIO4 twed0: <RAID0, Normal> on twe0 twed0: 228879MB (468745728 sectors) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/twed0s1a On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Lawrence Farr wrote: > Didn't get your dmesg. Is it Raid 5? What discs are they? how many? > What stripe size? > > Lawrence Farr > EPC Direct Limited > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of matt > > Sent: 07 September 2002 02:53 > > To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > > Subject: 3ware controller performance problems > > > > > > > > I recently purchased a 3ware 5400 controller to replace a promise > > controller that didn't live up to performance expectations. I'm having > > some serious issues with performance however - the 5400 is > > mind-numbingly > > slow compared to, well, anything. Whenever I do any disk intensive > > activities (e.g. untarring the ports tree), things slow to a > > crawl, and > > tar spends most of it's time sleeping according to top. This seems to > > happen no matter which box I stick this in (I've tried an old > > p233/intel > > chipset mobo and a k62/400/ali board), and seems to occure in both > > 5.0-current as well as 4.5-rel. I've tried Openbsd 3.1 on the same > > hardware config and things don't seem nearly as lagged, although > > performance is still not altogether impressive (takes 48 > > seconds to untar > > the ports tree on my old promise controller \w udma/66 drive > > with standard > > ata controller, 60 seconds to do the same under openbsd \w 3ware > > controller, and over 10 minutes to do the same under freebsd > > \w the 3ware > > controller). > > > > No error messages or syslog hints, no reliability problems as > > far as I can > > see, performance just seems to be inconsistent/awful. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > > > > my dmesg is attached. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -m > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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