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Subject: Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load
From: Kris Kennaway <kris () freebsd ! org>
Date: 2007-11-23 10:54:00
Message-ID: 4746B148.6000209 () FreeBSD ! org
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Alexey Popov wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>>>>> what is your RAID controller configuration (read ahead/cache/write
>>>>> policy)? I have seen weird/bogus numbers (~100% busy) reported by
>>>>> systat -v when read ahead was enabled on LSI/amr controllers.
>>>> I tried to run with disabled Read-ahead, but it didn't help.
>>> I just ran into this myself, and apparently it can be caused by
>>> "Patrol Reads" where the adapter periodically scans the disks to look
>>> for media errors. You can turn this off using -stopPR with the
>>> megarc gg port.
>> Oops, -disPR is the correct command to disable, -stopPR just halts a
>> PR event in progress.
> Wow! Really disabling Patrol Reads solves the problem. Thank you!
>
> I have many amrd's and all of them appear to have Patrol Reads enabled
> by default. But the problem happenes only on three of them. Is this a
> hardware problem?
I am not sure, maybe for some reason the patrol reads are not
interfering with other disk I/O so much (e.g. the hardware prioritises
them differently or something).
Anyway, glad to hear it was resolved.
Kris
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