Emmanuel Dreyfus <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for saving my day. But now what happens? > I note the SATA disks are in IDE emulation mode, and not AHCI. This is > something I need to try changing:
Switched to AHCI. Here is below how hard disks are discovered (the relevant raid is RAID1 on wd0 and wd1) In this setup, vfs.wapbl.flush_disk_cache=1 still get high loads, on both 6.0 and -current. I assume there must be something bad with WAPBL/RAIDframe ahcisata0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2: vendor 0x8086 product 0x2922 (rev. 0x02) ahcisata0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17 ahcisata0: AHCI revision 1.20, 4 ports, 32 slots, CAP 0xe322ffe3<SXS,EMS,CCCS,PSC,SSC,PMD,SPM,ISS=0x2=Gen2,SCLO,SAL,SSNTF,SNCQ,S64A> atabus2 at ahcisata0 channel 0 atabus3 at ahcisata0 channel 1 atabus4 at ahcisata0 channel 2 atabus5 at ahcisata0 channel 3 ahcisata0 port 0: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s ahcisata0 port 1: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s ahcisata0 port 2: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s ahcisata0 port 3: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s wd0 at atabus2 drive 0 wd0: <WDC WD5000AAJS-55A8B0> wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: 465 GB, 969021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) wd0(ahcisata0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA) wd1 at atabus3 drive 0 wd1: <WDC WD5000AAJS-55A8B0> wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd1: 465 GB, 969021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) wd1(ahcisata0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA) wd2 at atabus4 drive 0 wd2: <WDC WD5000AAJS-55A8B0> wd2: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd2: 465 GB, 969021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors wd2: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) wd2(ahcisata0:2:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA) wd3 at atabus5 drive 0 wd3: <WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0> wd3: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd3: 465 GB, 969021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors wd3: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) wd3(ahcisata0:3:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA) -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz [email protected]
