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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:16:04 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk Throughput test
Message-ID:  <gdqm2b$3k9$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <490097CC.9010802@opnet.com>
References:  <490097CC.9010802@opnet.com>

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Stephen Sanders wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.3
> Dual Quad Core Xeon 5450@3Ghz

FreeBSD 6.3 isn't very suited for your CPU. If your workload isn't
completely CPU bound (i.e. if isn't Seti@Home), you will not only not
make use of all 8 CPU cores but will probably get worse performance with
8 CPUs than with 2 CPUs. Upgrade to at least 7.0 and you'll probably
need 7.1-BETA2 to maximally use your CPU.

But if you don't have much IO contention it's probably not related to
your problem.

> 16GB RAM

You're using the AMD64 version, right?

> 3Ware 9650SE-ML / 256MB cache
> 14 Seagate 750GB/7200RPM/ST375033ONS SATA drives

Which RAID mode? What is the total size of your array?

> We have an application that is streaming data to disk at the maximum
> rate the controller can sustain.  The controller should be able to
> develop something on the order of 600MB/s but we're only getting 450MB/=
s.

Can you use something like bonnie++ to test your configuration?


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