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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:29:21 +0100 (CET)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very bad FreeBSD SCSI RAID5 write speed performance
Message-ID:  <20031113142735.S13503@cvs.imp.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20031113132327.GF13029@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
References:  <20031112172306.J4572@pooker.samsco.home> <20031113084355.P13503@cvs.imp.ch> <20031113132327.GF13029@canolog.ninthwonder.com>

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Hi,

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:38:53AM -0500, Gary Stanley wrote:
> > root@64:[/tmp/blah]>dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/blah/blah
> > 89472+0 records in
> > 89471+0 records out
> > 45809152 bytes transferred in 8.546312 secs (5360108 bytes/sec)

Exactly what we get here: ~ 6MB per second with RAID5 and the IPS
driver. The Adaptec 3200s is similar.

A single disk has writes to the 53MB to the raw slice. I don't know
why 5 equal disks on 2 busses are that slow.

Martin



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