From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 22 13:41:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6B437B4AE for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3MKMPff079659; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:22:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020422160043.03499a50@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:15:38 -0400 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: new ata code and vinum Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While putting together a new news server, I did some quick tests on some of the new ATA hardware. So far so good in tests. It will be interesting to see how it takes a pounding with 30Mb/s being sent to it 24hrs a day :) Using PIII, 1G, 1G of RAM HighPoint RocketRAID 404 (370 chipset), ahc 2940U -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU ad8 1500 40395 91.5 39973 51.5 14251 18.0 28391 91.5 41257 20.4 192.0 1.1 da0 1500 17198 40.2 15052 18.0 8030 9.9 15768 50.6 15846 7.4 297.8 1.8 vinumS 1500 32865 78.5 31383 42.1 10993 15.0 24679 83.5 32473 20.8 505.4 3.4 ar0 1500 47033 88.2 43172 53.7 16090 21.2 28676 93.5 44640 24.3 296.7 1.9 vinumI 1500 47819 89.5 43188 58.6 13715 18.9 20767 69.5 32029 19.0 365.6 2.0 The the drives being da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device on ahc0: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device ar1: 114483MB [14594/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad8: 57241MB [116301/16/63] at ata4-master UDMA100 1 READY ad10: 57241MB [116301/16/63] at ata5-master UDMA100 ad8 was just a drive off the RocketRaid controllers, and ar0 being a stripe of the 2 drives. vinumI = vinum with 2 IDE drives (both on single channels) vinumS = vinum with 2 of the SCSI drives. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message