Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread FUJISHIMA Satsuki
At Sun, 08 May 2005 08:35:38 -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > According to the documentation this is not the case and the XOR > > calcs are done in hardware on the onboard HPT 601. > Maybe I'm confused and we are talking about different cards. RocketRAID 1820 is a plain SATA card with software RAID. 1

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2005-05-08 Thread Scott Long
Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to the documentation this is not the case and the XOR calcs are done in hardware on the onboard HPT 601. Maybe I'm confused and we are talking about different cards. Quite possibly all other highp

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is well phrased English for what I was trying to say. I'm glad to see that it worked for you. And I'm certainly impressed by the numbers... This is on a 4 disk RAID5 with one hot spare??? Unfortunately not, we need

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Steven Hartland wrote: Still I would argue that if you do not use a write size larger than what you have as real memory, that buffering in real memory is going to play a role I think you miss read all the details here Willem. Sorry about that, if that is the case. Original values: Write: 150

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to the documentation this is not the case and the XOR calcs are done in hardware on the onboard HPT 601. Maybe I'm confused and we are talking about different cards. Quite possibly all other highpoint cards that Im aware

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "willem jan withagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P I've just finished putting together a new server box spec: Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SA

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Scott Long
Steven Hartland wrote: Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steven Hartland wrote: If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P The RR1280 cards are really just software RAID cards. All

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Steven Hartland
Original Message - From: "Scott Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steven Hartland wrote: If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P The RR1280 cards are really just software RAID cards. All of the parity calculat

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Scott Long
Steven Hartland wrote: If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P The RR1280 cards are really just software RAID cards. All of the parity calculations are done by the CPU. I couldn't find much evidence that the driv

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread willem jan withagen
Steven Hartland wrote: If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P I've just finished putting together a new server box spec: Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array. 5.4-STABLE

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-08 Thread Steven Hartland
If that where the case it would have been it wouldn't have been 46Mb/s it would have been 543Mb/s, just tested it for you :P Steve / K - Original Message - From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steven Hartland wrote: I've just finished putting together a new server box spec:

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-07 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Steven Hartland wrote: I've just finished putting together a new server box spec: Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array. 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) . 65536 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec) You're only transferi

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Eric Anderson wrote: I'm using fiber channel SATA, and I get 2x write as I do read, which doesn't make sense to me. What kind of write speeds do you get? My tiny brain tells me that reads should be faster than writes with a RAID5. I'm seeing similar sequential performance on RELENG_5_3 and REL

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Peter Losher
Steven Hartland wrote: > 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) > dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 65536 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec) Have you tried the driver supplied by Highpoint as a pre-compiled

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-29 Thread Steven Hartland
There is no precompiled version for 5.3 but looking at the openbuild version its the same driver as the built in. 80MB/s is still terrible should be looking closer to 200MB/s. Steven Hartland wrote: 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1 1+0

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Eric Anderson
Peter Losher wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec) Have you tried the driver supplied by Highpoint as a pre

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Steven Hartland
Sorry wanted to send to performance not current :) Steve - Original Message - I've just finished putting together a new server box spec: Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array. The machine is currently running 5.4-STABLE ( from the weekend ) Afte

Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-04-28 Thread Steven Hartland
I've just finished putting together a new server box spec: Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array. The machine is currently running 5.4-STABLE ( from the weekend ) After install I did some basic tests and the disk is return very poor performance low in fact