Re: Still have BCE driver issues (dell pe 1950) and NFS

2007-02-09 Thread Fredrik Widlund
, Fredrik Widlund Fredrik Widlund wrote: > Hi, > > Will a fix/this fix be part of the 6.2 Release? We will be relying > heavily on fbsd6.2 and pe1950 and are worried about the BCE stability? > > Kind regards, > Fredrik Widlund > > Scott Long wrote: > >> Olivier Mue

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Fredrik Widlund
other solutions on obsd. Imho obsd tend to be less focused on features and 0-day support, and more focused on auditing, stability and security. For example obsd doesn't support pe1950 yet. For a router/firewall/dnsserver and similar solutions I'd go obsd anyday. For, s

Re: Still have BCE driver issues (dell pe 1950) and NFS

2006-11-07 Thread Fredrik Widlund
Hi, Will a fix/this fix be part of the 6.2 Release? We will be relying heavily on fbsd6.2 and pe1950 and are worried about the BCE stability? Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund Scott Long wrote: > Olivier Mueller wrote: >> Le 7 nov. 06 à 01:15, Scott Long a écrit : >> >>&g

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Fredrik Widlund
inux, and it's not driver specific? Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund Scott Long wrote: > You seem convinced that this is a driver bug. Did you receive my > series of emails 2 days ago that explained why it is not? > > Scott > > > Fredrik Widlund wrote: >> Please don

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Fredrik Widlund
thru support comes with a severe performance penalty I suggest the man page mentions it, regardless of whether you think "WThru is a bad thing (tm)" or not. Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund Scott Long wrote: > The battery unit should not be considered optional. It's not about > pe

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Fredrik Widlund
ny kind on the way to secondary storage still is interesting to me, so if you could elaborate here that would be great! Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:34:22AM +0100, Fredrik Widlund wrote: > >> Yes, it forces writeback even when the

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Fredrik Widlund
mance degradation of wthru would make it unusable for us. Ivan Voras skrev: Fredrik Widlund wrote: Solved my issue with LSI 8480E without BBU. With "write: BadBBU", "cache: enabled", and "io: cached", performance rose to around 200MB/s from 20MB/s. I don

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Fredrik Widlund
0 us rate: 25231360 Bps, write: 2301 us rate: 19660800 Bps, write: 2418 us ... 10x performance win, so this is one thing off my back. Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund Fredrik Widlund wrote: > 256MB cache, no BBU. Tried a lot of different combinations of settings. > > fbsd 6.2pre writes 220MB/s w

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Fredrik Widlund
The adapter won't allow me to do so since there's no BBU. Fredrik Tom Judge wrote: > Have you tried setting the write cache policy to write back rather > than write thru? > > Tom > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Fredrik Widlund
ache and 8 drives, maybe around 50 MB/s, however I get a zig-zag performance pattern, with the adapter running at 500% (gstat) utilization one second, then down to 0% for maybe 3 seconds, back, etc. Fredrik Ivan Voras wrote: > Fredrik Widlund wrote: >> Ivan Voras wrote: >>> Severa

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Fredrik Widlund
id-5 configuration. [/mnt/test (/dev/mfid0p1 mounted)] read: 200MB/s write: 15MB/s [/dev/mfid0p1] read: 200MB/s write: 8MB/s [/dev/mfid0] read: 200MB/s write: 10MB/s Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Fredrik Widlund
bottlenecks at 20MB/s. We've tried different setups but hit the same limitation again and again. The strange part is that a Dell raid adapter based on the same chipset, the Perc 5/I, works well with writes achieving 200MB/s. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Fredrik Wi

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-17 Thread Fredrik Widlund
hed. Kind regards, Fredrik Widlund --- Begin Message --- Hi, Suddenly the problem occured again. We are running the same setup as below, but with debug.mpsafenet=0, but it didn't help. This is indeed a showstopper for us, we are moving all our dell 1950 out of production environment until we