Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-11 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/2/11 Antony Mawer : > How would one go about gathering data on such a scenario to help improve > this? We were planning a project involving VMware deployments with FreeBSD > 7.1 systems in the near future, but if performance is that bad it is likely > to be a show stopper. I have now tested

RE: Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter

2009-02-11 Thread Markus Kovero
Hi, have you tried difference between UP and SMP kernels, years ago there were serious performance hit with SMP-kernel and adaptec/dell perc Yours Markus Kovero -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brad

Extremely slow write speeds to disk : FreeBSD 7.1 and Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter

2009-02-11 Thread Bradley Radjoo
Greetings, Please can you assist. I have attempted most of the popular BSD Variants such as NetBSD, Open BSD, FreeBSD... The only distrubution that seems to work on the is Dell SAS 6/iR Adapter is FreeBSD 7.1 Firmware version & date : 9/29/2008 00.25.47.00 But the issue is that writing to di

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 disk performance issue on ESXi 3.5

2009-02-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Antony Mawer wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: >>> Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: (However, just to give you an idea I attached the basic 5.1.2 unixbench outputs (the CPU info for FreeBSD is "fake", since unixbench does a cat /proc/cpuinfo, so I removed the /proc/ pa