Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:44:20 +0100 From: Bjorn Eikeland <bjorn@eikeland.info> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers Message-ID: <opr1s9b6fhomdbx5@localhost>
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Hi I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two more drives the new array has a terrible write performance. I've tried various stripe and block sizes in desperation but that didnt help. Then I've tried assinging the same irq to both controller card in case it was interrupts causing the slow down, so I set both pci slots to use irq3 in the bios (freebsd wants irq 3 for a non existent sio1 port - so I figure that'll be 'free'?) but despite my setting in the bios the cards still show up in dmesg with irq 21 and 22? So I looked thourgh the handbook and tried setting the irq in /boot/device.hints both as hint.atapci.x.irq="3" and hint.ata.x.irq="3" but this didnt work either. The problem is the same in freebsd 5.1 and 5.2 (output below is form 5.2): home# dmesg | grep atapci atapci0: <Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controller> port 0xb000-0xb00f,0xb400-0xb403,0xb800-0xb807,0xd000-0xd003,0xd400-0xd407 mem 0xf9000000-0xf9003fff irq 21 at device 9.0 on pci1 atapci0: [MPSAFE] ata2: at 0xd400 on atapci0 ata3: at 0xb800 on atapci0 atapci1: <Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controller> port 0x9400-0x940f,0x9800-0x9803,0xa000-0xa007,0xa400-0xa403,0xa800-0xa807 mem 0xf8800000-0xf8803fff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci1 atapci1: [MPSAFE] ata4: at 0xa800 on atapci1 ata5: at 0xa000 on atapci1 atapci2: <Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller> port 0x8800-0x880f at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci2 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci2 Any thoughts anyone? Bjorn
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