Misc, I'm working on a multicast IP Video Project at work and have been using FreeBSD and VLS as a Video On Demand server to test multicast Video in PIM SM and DM. I was using FreeBSD because it had support for three 2u servers I had laying around most notably the need was to use the 5i Controller that was on board. When I started the project OpenBSD didn't have support for CISS driver.
With 3.8 coming out here shortly it does so I grabbed a snapshot and installed it. Everything works correctly now that I have the IRQ fixed for the second Ethernet but the drive performance is slow. I am running in a Raid 1 and realize I should take a performance hit but un-taring the ports.tar.gz took 15 minutes. The system is a 3Ghz with 1G of Memory. Commands at the console are just fine when removing and un-taring but the load does jump to 2+. I don't think it should take that long at all. I am curious if their are some known performance issues with this driver (being that its new and all) and if not maybe I need to configure something to increase performance and someone could make a suggestion? I enabled soft-updates on one partition to see if this made any difference and it didn't. Everything was still slow that I tried to do inside of that partition . I am really excited to use the new trunk feature and use my two GigE interfaces together and run VLS on OpenBSD for my testing and forgo FreeBSD but the disk performance is holding me back. Any thoughts or suggestions would be great. I do have my 3.8 disks and clothing/posters on order and am excitedly waiting. I wish I would have been testing this sooner but I was not paying close enough attention to the lists like I should have been. Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions Always trying to use more OpenBSD --------------------------------------------------- Jason Houx --------------------------------------------------- Micro$oft Gives you Windows Unix gives you a /home ---------------------------------------------------
