RE: Bad 3ware 9000 performance 5.4?

From: Vinod Kashyap (vkashyap_at_amcc.com)
Date: 05/21/05

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    To: Alexis Yushin <alexis@ww.net>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
    Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:13:06 -0700
    
    

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
    > Alexis Yushin
    > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:14 PM
    > To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
    > Subject: Bad 3ware 9000 performance 5.4?
    >
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've been browsing through the mailing list archive, but
    > could not find the
    > answer/conclusion/solution to this...
    >
    > Running FreeBSD 5.4... three machines with twe/3ware 8000 and
    > three twa/
    > 3ware 9500-8 controllers. All of them running RAID 1+0
    > without write cache
    > since we dont have battery backup unit. All of them Seagate 7200 SATA.
    >
    > I get about 46Mb/s write on the 8000 series and only 5(!)MB/s
    > on the 9500 series.
    >
    > How is this possible? Machines are in production so I can do
    > very little
    > testing... Any ideas?
    >

    You have to have write caching enabled to get better write performance.
    If you see bad numbers even with caching enabled, check to see if
    all drives/cables are ok.

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