Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

Since I tested it on different kind of os's, and with at least 5 testing 
applications, I don't think that would be the case.

-zsozso

On 2010.06.19. 13:17, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:58 AM, oizs<oizs_at_freemail.hu>  wrote:
>    
>> I tried almost everything raid 0 1 5 10 with all kind of stripes 32/64/128
>> and settings direct io/cached/read-ahead/wt/wb/disk-cache but nothing seems
>> to work.
>> I changed the card to another dell perc 5 which had an older firmware. Tried
>> 4 kind of motherboards even tried changing the os to linux and windows xp/7.
>> In windows I got some funny results 1.3MB/s with write-back and 150MB/s
>> reads with 5 disks in raid0.
>> I just wanted to have a hw raid with no problems since the motherboard
>> 88sx7042 and bsd did not like eachother.
>>
>> On 2010.06.19. 11:07, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote:
>>      
>>> On 18.06.2010 01:50, oizs wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've bought a Dell Perc 5/i because I couldn't make the onboard marvell
>>>> 88sx7042 work with 8.0/8.1 or current, but as lucky as I am, the best I
>>>> can do with 4x1.5tb samsung in raid5 is 60MB/s writes and 90MB/s reads,
>>>> with bbu/write-back/adaptive-read-ahead.
>>>>
>>>> I was expecting at least twice of that, and I'm not sure what can I do
>>>> to get that speed. (I've read man 7 tuning with no success)
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know this controller should be as fast as on other systems.
>>>> (Freebsd.org mx1 has one of these cards.)
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping somebody on the list reads this and helps because I can't
>>>> afford to buy another card.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I've lost track of what actual boards Dell has OEMized to make the
>>> various PERCs, but if I remember somewhat correctly, the PERC5 is
>>> basically an LSI Megaraid SAS 8308elp with different labels and firmware?
>>>
>>> If so, I've got that exact controller (minus the dell labels and
>>> firmware) in my primary storage box here, and yes, you SHOULD be able to
>>> get more performance out of it. What's your strip sizes and logical disk
>>> layout?
>>>
>>> (I've got the same board running on 8x 1T5 Seagates in RAID5+0, and that
>>> setup easily pulls 5 times the values you're seeing, and by all logic
>>> you should see about half of what I'm seeing)
>>>        
> Dumb question: are you sure that the problem that you're seeing isn't
> in fact inhibited by the application that you're getting `performance'
> results with?
> HTH,
> -Garrett
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