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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:37:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: poor performances with Intel Raid Controller (iir)
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902271537070.20505@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <1235740489.2747.17.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
References:  <1235740489.2747.17.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>

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> I've a machine with an integrated Intel RAID controller (U320) which
> uses the iir driver. I have two arrays, one RAID 1 with two disks and
> one RAID 5 with 8 disks. The disks are all Seagate 320MB/s. The system
> is running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE with 8 processors (2,40 Ghz) and 4GB or
> RAM.
>
> I have very poor performances, around ~50 MB/s, is it normal ?
>
> jcigar@bccm-it ~ % dd if=/dev/zero of=blah bs=10M count=100
> 100+0 records in
> 100+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes transferred in 20.168689 secs (51990290 bytes/sec)
>
> Are there any tool to detect what could be the bottleneck(s) ?

are you sure it isn't NORMAL performance of this card.

i think it is, the "hardware" RAID solutions are usually much slower than 
software, even more with RAID5.



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