Re: Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter

[O. Hartmann]

Bradley Radjoo wrote:
Thanks very much Richard,
(They are 2 X 73Gig Ultra 320 scsi SAS drives)

BUT seems that even with the UP kernel, I still get issues..
This is what I see in dmesg :

mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem
0xdfcec000-0xdfceffff,0xdfcf0000-0xdfcfffff irq 15 at device 0.0 on pci5
mpt0: [ITHREAD]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.18.0
mpt0: mpt_wait_req(6) timed out
mpt0: port 0 enable timed out
mpt0: failed to enable port 0
mpt0: unable to initialize IOC
da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
ses0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0

Please can you assist and advise 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Tector [mailto:richardtec...@thekeelecentre.com] 
Sent: 12 February 2009 01:57 PM
To: Bradley Radjoo
Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell
SAS 6/iR Adapter

Bradley Radjoo wrote:
Greetings,

Please can you assist.

I have attempted most of the popular BSD Variants such as NetBSD, Open
BSD, FreeBSD...
The only distrubution that seems to work on the is Dell SAS 6/iR
Adapter
is FreeBSD 7.1
Firmware version & date : 9/29/2008 00.25.47.00

But the issue is that writing to disk is extremely slow...i.e. 14Mb
per
second....

If I install any other linux distribution, like CentOS, write speek is
the way it should be..it averages around 190Mb+ per second

I was hoping if it were at all possible for you to assist me in with a
later RAID Controller Driver for the SAS 6/iR Adapter

Try:
hw.mpt.enable_sata_wc=1
in /boot/loader.conf and reboot.

Assuming you are using SATA drives, the write cache is disabled by 
default. This reenables it. The mpt manpage holds more information.

Regards,

Richard
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We're using a Dell 1950-III Poweredge server with two XEON 4-Core-CPUs 
and at the momen one 750GB SATA drive.
This box suffers from incredible slow drive access speeds - 
approximately a half of what I see on other boxes around.

When I read this posting I was quite happy having found a possible 
solution, but I can't find the above mentioned OID, FreeBSD 
8.0-CURRENT/amd64 (running on this box) shows only "hw.ata.wc: 1" as
a relevant OID. No hw.mpt.XXX OIDs anywere. This is the part from DMESG 
reflecting MPT:

mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 
0xfc4fc000-0xfc4fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4effff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
mpt0: [ITHREAD]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.14.0
mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 )
mpt0: 0 Active Volumes (2 Max)
mpt0: 0 Hidden Drive Members (14 Max)

I can not tell you, at this very moment, what configuration has been 
done in the BIOS. The SATA HD is recognized as da0:

da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ATA Hitachi HUA72107 A74A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da0: 300.000MB/s transfers
da0: Command Queueing Enabled
da0: 715404MB (1465149168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 91201C)


Maybe someon can followup on this if there is some kind of issue ...

Thanks in advance,
Oliver
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