From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 07:53:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF391065673 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:53:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kama@pvp.se) Received: from ms1.as.pvp.se (mail.pvp.se [213.64.187.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824388FC14 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BAAF368; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:53:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms1.as.pvp.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66BC67; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:53:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:53:19 +0200 (CEST) From: kama X-X-Sender: kama@ns1.as.pvp.se To: Ulf Zimmermann In-Reply-To: <20100408175945.GG30353@evil.alameda.net> Message-ID: <20100412094139.S83381@ns1.as.pvp.se> References: <4BBC1A47.2060206@obl.lt.energy.gov.ua> <20100408175945.GG30353@evil.alameda.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Vitalik Lelik , freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD+ Proliant CL380 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:53:21 -0000 On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:38:15AM +0300, Vitalik Lelik wrote: > > Hello. > > Sorry for my English, its not very good :) > > I have 1 question: we have Compaq Proliant CL380 server, and I attempted > > install FreeBSD on it, but have problems. After searching in many site, > > handbook, etc, i see that Proliant CL380 not support FreeBSD - its > > really? or have some options to install? > > About CL380+FreeBSD littel information in the internet. > > > > With the best regards, Vitalik. > > First of all, are you sure it is a CL380? I am only aware of DL380. > Then you also would have to know what generation: G1 (usual has no further > indication to this), G2, G3, G4, G5, G6. If it is DL380 and labeled Compaq it is either R1 or G2. (G1 does not exists in the naming, its R1). G3 and later are labeled HP. And have noticed issues with R1 and FreeBSD 5.x. Freebsd <= 4.x and >= 6.2 works. CL380 does exists. But I have no experience about them. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10634_div/10634_div.html But its trial and error. The only thing I can think of that are not supported is the raidcard. But it seems to be a smart array so its either the ciss or the ida driver. You can probably get the device id from a linux boot and update the driver with that id. /Bjorn From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 20:30:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276F1106566B for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwf-ml@arcor.de) Received: from mail.arcor.net (mail.arcor.net [145.253.32.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB358FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw.arcor.net (sunmaildns02.arcor.net [62.213.136.74]) by mail.arcor.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3DKUZCG010458; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: from tkmail.arcor.net (esbanl-1ug-1-p2.arcor.net [62.213.137.69]) by mail-gw.arcor.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3DKUZVj008008; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sky.tnd.arcor.net (sky.tnd.arcor.net [10.128.188.151]) by tkmail.arcor.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B279B1F9E; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: from [10.128.189.1] (wefapc.tnd.arcor.net [10.128.189.1]) by sky.tnd.arcor.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966DB2F12; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:35 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <4BC4D46B.9040805@arcor.de> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:35 +0200 From: Christoph Weber-Fahr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: is trhere a problem with the HP SmartArray P410 and/or Postgres on FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:30:38 -0000 Hello, on a new HP Proliant DL385 G6 I have a P410 with BBWC and 8 hard drives in RAID5. (BBWC is Battery Backed Write Cache Enabler, and the controller is configured with 300M (75%) write cache). One of the applications we want to run is PostgreSQL (not the top priority, else we would use a different RAID scenario). But before getting the system live, we tested the performance. PostgreSQL gets a whole wopping 80 (!) tps out of this scenario wit pgbench ( -c 5 -t 5000) Now I had not expected top performance, but something to the tune of 500 tps should be well possible. And it's definitely a storage or filke system issue, since CPU is bored to death during the benchmark, while the file system is at 100% according to systat. On a comparable Hardware our test machine runs as a VM under VMWare and gets ~600 tps. Is there a known problem with this setup? OS is FreeBSD-amd64 7.2-p7 . Regards Christoph Wenber-Fahr