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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 20:01:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Youse <cyouse@cybersites.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com>
Subject:   Re: fsck and large file system
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905121956501.8130-100000@ns1.cybersites.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990513092808.X89091@freebie.lemis.com>

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Whoa ... can anyone substantiate that this poor performance is typical 
or atypical of DPT SCSI RAID controllers?

I was just about to drop $6000 on a DPT SmartRAID IV 64MB. . .

Chuck Youse 
Director of Systems
cyouse@cybersites.com


On Thu, 13 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Wednesday, 12 May 1999 at 15:18:22 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote:
> > BTW: this system is getting VERY poor I/O performance, using the DPT SCSI RAID
> > controller and three arrays of four 49 GB Seagate drives.  "iozone" reports
> > 340,000 bytes/sec write and 9,800,000 bytes/sec read.
> 
> That's particularly bad.  Which model was it?  I've done some
> comparisons with Vinum and found that the write performance of Vinum
> (RAID-5) was round 25% of read performance, while it was below 10% on
> the SmartRAID IV.



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