Re: Poor write performance with LSI 320-2 on 6.1-STABLE

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:15:05PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
I don't understand how #1 gives 16MB/s (RAID 1) while #3 gives only
17MB/s. I'd expect #3 to be about x2 the performance of #1.

The arrays are configured with "write-thru" write policy, "adaptive"
read policy, and "cachedio" cache policy.

Anything I can do to improve the speed. Even though the bus is 33Mhz,
I should definitely be doing better than 16MB/s.

{snip}

I'm running bonnie++ as:
$ cd [some tmp dir on UFS2 file system]
$ bonnie++

Pure shot in the dark (I have no experience with LSI controllers,
only Adaptec and Promise): have you tried adjusting some of the
tunefs parameters for the UFS2 filesystem bonnie++ is using?
Options -e and -f may help with this.

Also, at least in the Adaptec world: if the controller does its
own caching (that is, it has actual RAM on-board or DRAM of some
kind), it is sometimes *better* to disable SCSI disk caching on
each individual SCSI drive and let the controller do it. Again,
can't speak for LSI controllers...

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