Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-17 Thread David Touitou
Hello all, Tom Judge a écrit : From the boot messages you have included below it seems that you have a Dell SAS-5i (Internal PCIe) controller and not a Perc/5[ie]. The SAS-5 known to have very poor performance (1Mb/s 100%busy) under certain loads (cvsup). I have something that looks like t

Re: Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Jacob
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest that ext3 is better albeit bursty for writes. That's the Linux aggressive write-behind and ext2/ext3 for you in a nutshell. It's also quite likely true that in many cases that reads and I/O scheduling is a lot better in Linux. If you have time to run some

Re: Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}filesystem? ext3? Correct. -} -}I want one of these failing machines *in my lab*. -} -}On 5/14/07, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -}> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}> -}> -}Time frame to resolution involves get

Re: Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Jacob
filesystem? ext3? I want one of these failing machines *in my lab*. On 5/14/07, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}Time frame to resolution involves getting a machine into my lab that -}evidences the poor performance and the time to so

Re: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Anderson
On 05/15/07 11:30, Kevin Kobb wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Randy Schultz wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly: -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives? -} -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS

RE: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Kevin Kobb
Tom Judge wrote: > Randy Schultz wrote: >> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly: >> >> -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA >> -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives? -} >> -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS drives, and seem to >>

Re: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Tom Judge spaketh thusly: -}I have attached some blogbench tests from the following configs: Woo-hoo! Tnx heaps and loads Tom. -} -}Perc5i 4 * SAS 15K RPM 146 Gig disks in raid 5. Hmm. This one was a bit troubling. It was only about twice as fast as the SATA/RAID 1 I te

Re: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Randy Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly: -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives? -} -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS dri

Re: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Tom Judge
Randy Schultz wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly: -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives? -} -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS drives, and seem to get decent -}performance, though I

PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly: -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives? -} -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS drives, and seem to get decent -}performance, though I haven't run any benchma

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-15 Thread Kevin Kobb
Matthew Jacob wrote: Time frame to resolution involves getting a machine into my lab that evidences the poor performance and the time to sort out what the problem is and fix it. Remote access doesn't work for me on this one (contact me offline as to why). On 5/11/07, Tom Judge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-14 Thread Randy Schultz
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}Time frame to resolution involves getting a machine into my lab that -}evidences the poor performance and the time to sort out what the -}problem is and fix it. Remote access doesn't work for me on this one -}(contact me offline as to why). Hey

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
Time frame to resolution involves getting a machine into my lab that evidences the poor performance and the time to sort out what the problem is and fix it. Remote access doesn't work for me on this one (contact me offline as to why). On 5/11/07, Tom Judge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Randy Schult

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Tom Judge
Randy Schultz wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007, Tom Judge spaketh thusly: -}> -- -} -}From the boot messages you have included below it seems that you have a Dell -}SAS-5i (Internal PCIe) controller and not a Perc/5[ie]. Tnx Tom. Yeah I knew that but didn't catch it in the Subject: The perc/5 is

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Schultz
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Tom Judge spaketh thusly: -}> -- -} -}From the boot messages you have included below it seems that you have a Dell -}SAS-5i (Internal PCIe) controller and not a Perc/5[ie]. Tnx Tom. Yeah I knew that but didn't catch it in the Subject: The perc/5 is on another machine. -}

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Schultz
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bill Moran spaketh thusly: -} -}My personal server is a Dell 860 configured very similarly to yours, -}with the difference that it has a single 160G SATA drive (no RAID). -}It's also running 6.2. Hey Bill, Tnx for the data. I'm going to put a linux on to see if it's actual

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Eric Anderson
On 05/11/07 08:42, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there, We just purchased a Dell 860 with these specifics: - dual core pentium 915, 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB - 2x512 MB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM - Dell's SAS/SATA drive controller(which is actually an LSILogic

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Tom Judge
Randy Schultz wrote: Hi there, We just purchased a Dell 860 with these specifics: - dual core pentium 915, 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB - 2x512 MB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM - Dell's SAS/SATA drive controller(which is actually an LSILogic) - their 5IR PCI-Express internal RAID controller - a pair of 250

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Tom Judge
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there, We just purchased a Dell 860 with these specifics: - dual core pentium 915, 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB - 2x512 MB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM - Dell's SAS/SATA drive controller(which is actually an LSILogic) - their 5IR PC

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi there, > > We just purchased a Dell 860 with these specifics: >- dual core pentium 915, 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB >- 2x512 MB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM >- Dell's SAS/SATA drive controller(which is actually an LSILogic) >- their 5IR PCI-Expre

possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Schultz
Hi there, We just purchased a Dell 860 with these specifics: - dual core pentium 915, 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB - 2x512 MB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM - Dell's SAS/SATA drive controller(which is actually an LSILogic) - their 5IR PCI-Express internal RAID controller - a pair of 250 GB SATA II's set up RA