From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 06:48:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197BB106566B for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:48:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34358FC17 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 90840 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jan 2009 06:48:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (spork@96.57.144.66) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Jan 2009 06:48:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:48:46 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Gary Palmer In-Reply-To: <20090130050451.GF81380@in-addr.com> Message-ID: References: <49819672.1090208@thekeelecentre.com> <20090130050451.GF81380@in-addr.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Richard Tector Subject: Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:48:48 -0000 On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > [ snip ] > >> Any idea what happened to the sysctl? Is there some other method to >> verify the loader tunable took (other than testing the throughput)? > > Boot with -v. If the loader tunable took effect, you should see > "Enabling SATA WC on phy " instead of "Disabling SATA ..." Cool, it works then. Why was the info removed from the sysctl mib? mpt0: Enabling SATA WC on phy 0 mpt0: Enabling SATA WC on phy 1 Bonnie++ is showing me about 24MB/s writes and 70MB/s reads. Is any of this verbose stuff problematic? mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0xa (ACK not required). mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x16 (ACK not required). mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x12 (ACK not required). mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x12 (ACK not required). mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x16 (ACK not required). mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0xb (ACK not required). And is any of this info found at boot-time accessible while the system is running? mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings ( Hot-Plug-Spares High-Priority-ReSync ) mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Using Spare Pool: 0 mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 2 Members: (mpt0:1:32:0): Primary Online (mpt0:1:1:0): Secondary Online mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 - Optimal mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Status ( Enabled ) (mpt0:vol0:1): Physical (mpt0:0:1:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:0:0) (mpt0:vol0:1): Online (mpt0:vol0:0): Physical (mpt0:0:32:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:1:0) (mpt0:vol0:0): Online Thanks, Charles ps - would it kill Dell to make a damn ISO of a bootable media for RAID controller firmware upgrades??? I don't even own anything with a floppy drive anymore. > Regards, > > Gary > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >