Dear Deanna and others,
I am using the ASR2100 RAID card and running 2.4.17 Linux . It seems the
card is very slow in RAID5 computation. I use 5x18GB 10,000rpm seagate
drives. The card orginal comes with a 32MB ECC SD RAM as cache buffer. I
feel that the card is very slow, the test with Bonnie shows 1810KB/sec
with CPU load less than 2%. This shows the CPU time is idle, but the
load average go up to around 13-14 . This means the dpt_i2o driver is
probably not written very good in releasing the cpu time (call to
schedule()) on blocking calls, probably in some IO waiting routines(I am
not sure), or it is holding some big locks in a slow place. The CPU is
sitting there doing nothing, but this behaviour always block my NFS
clients ("server not responding, still trying") and the machine looks
like dead not even response to a console keyboard input. Can you tell me
about what is going on or who else is suffering from the same result? I
would like to do some improvement of the driver, or the card is really
that slow? My 10year old SCSI drive (no raid) runs 2200Kb/sec and is
even faster than this Ultra-160 SCSI i960 RAID with 32MB cache. If this
is the case, I will just throw it away and use my onboard Ultra-160
connector with software RAID which runs faster(at least). This is almost
unusable for even small workgroup server.
regards,
David
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