From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 13:22:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BAB16A419 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:22:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rups@m0z.net) Received: from mail.argewebhosting.nl (smtp2.argewebhosting.nl [194.165.34.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C09C513C455 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:22:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rups@m0z.net) Received: (qmail 21896 invoked by uid 89); 26 Nov 2007 12:56:31 -0000 Received: from [84.245.23.218] (HELO [192.168.1.29]) (84.245.23.218) (smtp-auth username ruben@argeweb.nl, mechanism plain) by smtp2.argewebhosting.nl (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:56:31 +0100 Message-ID: <474AC262.40802@m0z.net> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:56:02 +0100 From: Ruben van der Zwan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Espen Tagestad References: <47496BE1.8080206@modula.no> In-Reply-To: <47496BE1.8080206@modula.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:22:54 -0000 We've had the same performance issues with the 860's (not just on BSD). We contacted Dell support and they suggested to download the Linux Dell Rescue CD, and enable the cache policy on the Virtual Disk on the controller. You can download the rescue CD here: http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml You have to disable all OMSA tools when the CD is booted (icon on desktop), after which you can start the LSI SAS Raid manager. After starting just click the virtual disk and go to "set properties" or something. We tried that on a BSD system, and this resolved the issue for us (now over 50MB/sec. seq. write). Regards, Ruben van der Zwan Espen Tagestad wrote: > Hi, > > We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR > SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with > management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance > issue with the disc i/o. On write I get at max 7-8MB/sec, while read > gives a bit more (11MB/sec). I tried first with 6.2-RELEASE, and then > upgraded to 6.3-PRERELEASE without any better results. > > I am aware of some discussion around this issue on these two maillists > in the spring earlier on this year, but I have not been able to find > any good resolution. My old firewall/router at home equipped with a > 733Mhz Pentium 3 processor and a old 40GB IDE harddrive made around > year 2001 performe better. Is there anybody out there with the same > problem who has solved this issue? Could it be that this is solved in > 7.0? > > Thanks in advance. >