Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-25 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
in my back pocket so I get a head start when we get around SAS testing again. On 18/01/2013 6:32 PM, Karim Fodil-Lemelin wrote: On 18/01/2013 5:42 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: This is all turning into a bikeshed discussion. As far as I can tell, the basic original question was why a *SAS

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-18 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 18/01/2013 10:16 AM, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:12:17 -0600, Karim Fodil-Lemelin fodillemlinka...@gmail.com wrote: SAS controllers may connect to SATA devices, either directly connected using native SATA protocol or through SAS expanders using SATA Tunneled Protocol (STP

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-18 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 18/01/2013 5:42 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: This is all turning into a bikeshed discussion. As far as I can tell, the basic original question was why a *SAS* (not a SATA) drive was not performing as well as expected based upon experiences with Linux. I still don't know whether reads or writes

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-17 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 16/01/2013 2:48 AM, Dieter BSD wrote: Karim writes: It is quite obvious that something is awfully slow on SAS drives, whatever it is and regardless of OS comparison. We swapped the SAS drives for SATA and we're seeing much higher speeds. Basically on par with what we were expecting (roughly

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 15/01/2013 3:03 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: Disabling the disks's write cache is *required* for data integrity. One op per rev means write caching is disabled and no queueing. But dmesg claims Command Queueing enabled, so you should be getting more than one op per rev, and writes should be fast. Is

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 15/01/2013 3:55 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: You're only doing one IO at the end. That's just plain silly. There's all kinds of overhead that could show up, that would be amortized over doing many IOs. You should also realise that the raw disk IO on Linux is by default buffered, so you're hitting

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 15/01/2013 4:54 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: # dd if=/dev/zero of=foo count=1 bs=1024 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 19.579077 secs (523007 bytes/sec) you write to file not device, so it will be clustered anyway by FreeBSD. 128kB by default, more if you put

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
On 15/01/2013 4:54 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: # dd if=/dev/zero of=foo count=1 bs=1024 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 19.579077 secs (523007 bytes/sec) you write to file not device, so it will be clustered anyway by FreeBSD. 128kB by default, more if you put

vm_zone corruption 4.x

2008-01-25 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
Good day, I have stumbled into a strange problem where my FBSD 4.x box keeps crashing under network traffic load. I have enabled INVARIANTS and debugging and was able to gather a trace. The context here is that a listening connection created a syncache entry sent a syn-ack and is now

Re: TTCP/RFC1644 problem

2004-02-11 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
Hi, Your problem here is that your TTCP connection times out and the data is retransmitted (loosing all the benefits of TTCP) see my other email for why this happens. Karim. Danny Braniss wrote: hi, im running some experiments, and it seems to me that setting net.inet.tcp.rfc1644