Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Philippe Pegon wrote: I'm not sure, but I believe that the Smart Array 532 doesn't have write cache and doesn't support it : http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/smartarray532/questionsanswers.html#11 Yes, you're right :( Oh well, I'll have to work ar

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Philippe Pegon
Ivan Voras wrote: Philippe Pegon wrote: If I remember correctly, you can see it at boot time. I don't know how to find it when FreeBSD is up. Maybe someone else knows it (if it's possible) ? It doesn't mention cache when booting and initialising the array. I'm not sure, but I believe that

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Philippe Pegon wrote: If I remember correctly, you can see it at boot time. I don't know how to find it when FreeBSD is up. Maybe someone else knows it (if it's possible) ? It doesn't mention cache when booting and initialising the array. ___ freebs

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Philippe Pegon
Ivan Voras wrote: Philippe Pegon wrote: do you have write cache on your Smart Array 532 ? I don't know (not my hardware) - how to find out? If I remember correctly, you can see it at boot time. I don't know how to find it when FreeBSD is up. Maybe someone else knows it (if it's possible)

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Philippe Pegon wrote: do you have write cache on your Smart Array 532 ? I don't know (not my hardware) - how to find out? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Philippe Pegon
Ivan Voras wrote: I need to get a Proliant machine with 2 P3 processors running FreeBSD 6. I don't know much about the machine, I think it's ML 380 G2 or close to that, but I have physical access. So far, everything is fine (once the inability to boot from CD-ROM is circumvented), except one "d

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Not sure if this is standard, but on an idle machine (ie. just set it up, nothing running on it yet), with RAID1+0 across 4 drives: Writing the 853 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'...15.656250 seconds Reading the file...3.921875 seconds IOZONE performance measurements:

Re: Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Not sure if this is standard, but on an idle machine (ie. just set it up, nothing running on it yet), with RAID1+0 across 4 drives: Writing the 853 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'...15.656250 seconds Reading the file...3.921875 seconds IOZONE performance measurements: 57129601 bytes/secon

Compaq Proliant CISS slow writes

2006-02-04 Thread Ivan Voras
I need to get a Proliant machine with 2 P3 processors running FreeBSD 6. I don't know much about the machine, I think it's ML 380 G2 or close to that, but I have physical access. So far, everything is fine (once the inability to boot from CD-ROM is circumvented), except one "detail": horrible w