Problem solved, I believe.
Here is the results from Bonnie++ with the raid card set to writethru
which writes
directly to disk.
Version 1.93c --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input-
--Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
Machine
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly
everything working but there are a few things which I need help with.
The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in
windows XP, hopefully there is a
With FreeBSD you can manage RAID in the OS or in your hardware (assuming
hardware RAID support.) If you setup the RAID in the hardware, FreeBSD
just sees the array as a large disk you can then partition. The
advantage of doing the RAID in hardware is usually performance, but also
you can
On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly
everything working but there are a few things which I need help with.
The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly
everything working but there are a few things which I need help with.
Steven Lowry wrote:
The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in
windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with
four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s
transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras
Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7:04 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
Steven Lowry wrote:
The main problem is my HD
Wood, Russell wrote:
I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a
god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0
was fast (70MB/s+).
Mine was RAID5. Hmm, oops, it wasn't LSI but HP/Compaq CISS, battery
backed, SATA on SAS.
da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0
On 1/17/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a
god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0
was fast (70MB/s+).
Interesting. On my single SATA drive box I see:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/ad8s1d of=/dev/zero
