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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adaptec 2940. broken. details inside
Date: 4 Jun 1997 11:02:29 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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Message-ID: <5n4ajl$iq8$1@flea.best.net>
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:In article <3394D709.7A0B@q-net.net.au>,
:Gary Allpike <spice@spice.net.au> wrote:
:>Steven Bjork wrote:
:>>
:>> Steven posted:
:>>
:>
:>> Pc running dos/windows or nt? You're in the wrong groups, sorry.
:>>
:>> I've had two folks say they had freebsd problems, but noone
:..
:>
:>FYI,
:>
:>I use 2940's in two linux PC's here, our news server, and our
:>web/quthentication server. Both are running 2.0.30, and both never miss
:>a beat. In fact, the web/auth server presently has an uptime of 41
:>days.
:>
:>These servers are not under a HUGE load, but they seem to work fine.
:>
:>News server ha 2 x 3.2GB Fireball Quantums, and the web/auth server has
:>1 x HP 2GB, a SCSI DAT and a SCSI CD-ROM
Here are some hard numbers for us too.. we have two machines that are
running at the load level shown below, and a third that is running
at about three quarters of that, and then four to six more machines
that are running at about the quarter of the disk loads shown below.
-Matt
nntp2:/news> uptime
10:50AM up 41 days, 20:17, 1 user, load averages: 1.48, 1.00, 0.77
nntp2:/news>
nntp2:/news> iostat sd0 sd1 sd2 sd3 sd4 1
tty sd0 sd1 sd2 sd3 sd4 cpu
tin tout sps tps msps sps tps msps sps tps msps sps tps msps sps tps msps us ni sy in id
0 18 -2 24 0.0 2 61 0.0 -0 18 0.0 -1 17 0.0 2 17 0.0 6 7 15 2 69
0 3601862 119 0.0 1686 113 0.0 376 19 0.0 154 6 0.0 176 10 0.0 50 0 15 2 33
0 1742113 125 0.0 1579 104 0.0 469 15 0.0 219 13 0.0 106 8 0.0 2 0 8 2 88
0 445 867 63 0.0 1516 109 0.0 1169 57 0.0 822 53 0.0 373 40 0.0 27 0 9 3 61
0 95 493 50 0.0 1340 92 0.0 312 19 0.0 236 14 0.0 101 10 0.0 5 0 17 1 77
0 95 528 56 0.0 1032 67 0.0 323 20 0.0 147 13 0.0 189 14 0.0 53 0 22 4 21
0 181 226 13 0.0 1093 69 0.0 441 21 0.0 244 13 0.0 191 14 0.0 20 0 16 2 62
0 95 228 17 0.0 1024 68 0.0 460 23 0.0 228 13 0.0 288 13 0.0 26 0 15 5 54
0 180 395 12 0.0 991 67 0.0 236 21 0.0 481 22 0.0 416 21 0.0 9 0 16 2 73
0 95 353 13 0.0 1089 68 0.0 697 43 0.0 774 37 0.0 337 22 0.0 35 0 15 2 49
0 270 214 19 0.0 980 63 0.0 417 22 0.0 228 15 0.0 284 19 0.0 14 0 16 4 66
0 269 212 12 0.0 1062 71 0.0 268 20 0.0 214 13 0.0 304 21 0.0 22 0 15 2 61
... 24 hours a day
nntp2:/news> ps x | fgrep nnrpd | wc
173 1382 12087
nntp2:/news> vmstat 1
procs memory page disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr s0 s1 s2 s3 in sy cs us sy id
1 2 0 481.5 53.7 284 20 0 1 186 277 24 61 18 17 787 775 274 14 17 69
6 1 0 481.5 53.2 479 12 0 0 224 0 8 64 19 17 1388 4384 500 25 26 50
2 3 0 476.0 53.1 16 31 0 0 102 0 1 72 18 27 1545 5534 460 12 25 63
1 2 0 476.1 53.5 11 2 0 0 256 0 6 65 22 21 773 2478 270 9 15 76
nntp2:/news> uname -a
FreeBSD nntp2.ba.best.com 2.1.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE #3: Thu Apr 17 13:21:57 PDT 1997 dillon@tick.best.net:/src/src/sys/compile/BEST i386
(basically 2.1.7.1 plus any additional patches/updates)
OS Configuration: shit, all the machines have been up too long :-) Even dmesg
doesn't have the boot info any more. Let me find one that I've rebooted
recently (they are all running the same tree and same type of disks, controllers,
etc...) ah, here we are:
FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #4: Mon May 5 05:02:27 PDT 1997
dima@tick.best.net:/src/src/sys/compile/BEST
CPU: 199-MHz unknown (Pentium-class CPU)
real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
de0 <Digital DC21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 9 on pci0:9
de0: SMC 9332 DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1
ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:12
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
(ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST34371W 0338" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4148MB (8496960 512 byte sectors)
sd0(ahc0:0:0): with 5168 cyls, 10 heads, and an average 164 sectors/track
etc...