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Date:      Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:44:10 -0500
From:      Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
To:        "Moore, Eric Dean" <emoore@lsil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: performance problem with amr driver and Perc 2/SC
Message-ID:  <200311061144.10119.jesse@wingnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57035A9B8A@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com>
References:  <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57035A9B8A@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com>

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On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:58, you wrote:
> Those are the optimal performance settings for
> those respective raid levels. Please go into
> control M and makesure those are your settings.

OK. I did this, and it more than doubled my sustainable
write speed!

I went from this:

    write             read
    2.05 MByte/Sec    12.59 MByte/Sec

To this:

    write             read
    6.31 MByte/Sec    13.49 MByte/Sec

Also, my peak Write went from about 3MB/Sec to 11MB/Sec,
and my peak Read went from about 13 MB/Sec to 18MB/Sec.

However, this still seems slow to me for an Ultra 2 SCSI
RAID-5 array. Is there anything else I can do to speed
things up? More RAM on the Perc 2/SC? A different SCSI
RAID controller altogether?

The PowerEdge 4300 only has a 32-bit PCI bus, but I
should still be able to achieve 20 MB/Sec Write and
20-40 MB/Sec Read with the right hardware, right?



> If your still having issue, please contact
> Atul or Rajesh as they are now maintaining this driver.
>
> Eric
>
> > On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:02, you wrote:
> > > My suggestion is to go into Control M Configuration Utility:
> >
> > OK. I understand that.
> >
> > > RAID5:  Write Back Cache, Normal Read Ahead, and Direct I/O
> > > RAID1:  Write Through Cache, Normal Read Ahead, and Direct I/O
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. As I stated in
> > my original
> > post, I'm running RAID5. What do you want me to do with the Write Back
> > Cache, Normal Read Ahead, and Direct I/O?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >

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