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Re: Scsipi guru needed...



On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Anders Magnusson wrote:

I have been trying to find out why the performance of the ciss controller (Compaq raid) in
DL38x is really bad, but as I don't understand anything about the scsipi
layer (are there any docs?) I must ask around.  All this is really strange.

Writing data to the raw sd device (bs=64k) gets just over 7MB/s, which is quite slow.
Some debugging showed that:
- A write transfer (from given to the ctlr to interrupt) takes 8ms. Ok, no write cache on the ctlr maybe?

  Does your controller have a battery backup?  I've found that without the
battery backup, the controller does not use any write cache and write speeds are significantly reduced.

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA


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