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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:05:12 -0000 (UTC)
From:      "Steven Lowry" <steve@midden.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        ivoras@fer.hr, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Subject:   Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance - Solved
Message-ID:  <64770.86.54.4.134.1169031912.squirrel@www.midden.org>
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Problem solved, I believe.

Here is the results from Bonnie++ with the raid card set to "writethru"
which writes
directly to disk.

Version     1.93c   ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
--Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP 
/sec %CP
Mort             2G   322  99 17482   4 20280   7   683  99 581645  99 
2261  65
Latency             25812us     260ms    1049ms     137ms     627us     100ms

I then set the card to "writeback" and got this.

Version     1.93c   ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
--Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP 
/sec %CP
Mort             2G   318  98 100299  37 96431  41   676  99 414514  99 
9853 425
Latency             79085us     250ms     263ms     127ms     651us   97392us

Looks like write caching was not enabled, don't know why it worked in
windows XP though.
Thankfully I have a good UPS, wouldn't want to lose data because of a
power loss.

A big thanks to everyone for your advice.

Steve...
-- 
Folding@home http://folding.stanford.edu/




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