I doing some performance test with openbsd 3.8 in a PowerEdge 830 with perc 4/sc board.
'dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/home/test1 count=4000 bs=256k' gives a transfer rate of 6MByte por second. This is really slow... other operating systems get a throughput of 45 mbyte por second. Setting Write-policy to Write Back in BIOS i doesn't help. The board parameters are: write policy: write back read policy: adaptative cache policy: cached i/o dmesg: OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #138: Sat Sep 10 15:41:37 MDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,EST,CNXT-ID cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep disabled by BIOS real mem = 1073065984 (1047916K) avail mem = 972541952 (949748K) using 4278 buffers containing 53755904 bytes (52496K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 10/12/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfb900/208 (11 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #7 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xb000 0xcb000/0x1000 0xcc000/0x3c00 0xd0000/0x1600 0xd1800/0x2600 0xd4000/0x600 0xec000/0x4000! cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x2778 rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x2779 rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x09 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ahc1 at pci3 dev 1 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-3960D U160" rev 0x01: irq 10 scsibus0 at ahc1: 16 targets ahc2 at pci3 dev 1 function 1 "Adaptec AHA-3960D U160" rev 0x01: irq 5 scsibus1 at ahc2: 16 targets ami0 at pci3 dev 2 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID" rev 0x01: irq 3 Dell 520/64b/lhc ami0: FW 351S, BIOS v1.10, 64MB RAM ami0: 1 channels, 0 FC loops, 1 logical drives scsibus2 at ami0: 40 targets sd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <AMI, Host drive #00, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 69880MB, 8908 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 143114240 sec total scsibus3 at ami0: 16 targets ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 4 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x27e0 rev 0x01 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 bge0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5721" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1 (0x4101): irq 10 address 00:14:22:7b:0d:6a brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0 ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 5 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x27e2 rev 0x01 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ppb5 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xe1 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 ppb6 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 vendor "Hint", unknown product 0x0022 rev 0x04 pci7 at ppb6 bus 7 vga1 at pci7 dev 2 function 0 "ATI Radeon VE QY" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) vendor "Dell", unknown product 0x0010 (class undefined unknown subclass 0x00, rev 0x00) at pci7 dev 4 function 0 not configured vendor "Dell", unknown product 0x0012 (class undefined unknown subclass 0x00, rev 0x00) at pci7 dev 4 function 1 not configured vendor "Dell", unknown product 0x0014 (class undefined unknown subclass 0x00, rev 0x00) at pci7 dev 4 function 2 not configured pciide0 at pci7 dev 7 function 0 "CMD Technology PCI0680" rev 0x02 pciide0: bus-master DMA support present pciide0: channel 0 wired to native-PCI mode pciide0: using irq 5 for native-PCI interrupt atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus4 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets sd1 at scsibus4 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, VSF, 0123> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd1: drive offline atapiscsi1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1 scsibus5 at atapiscsi1: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus5 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, VCD, 0133> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable sd1(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 3 cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 3 pciide0: channel 1 wired to native-PCI mode pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x01 pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801GB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi2 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus6 at atapiscsi2: 2 targets cd1 at scsibus6 targ 0 lun 0: <LITE-ON, CD-ROM LTN-4891S, NDS3> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd1(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide1: channel 1 ignored (disabled) "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask efed netmask efed ttymask ffef pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled uhidev0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 uhidev0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1 uhidev1: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1 ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]