Installation guide
Controller Object Commands
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When a verify background task is active, if the task rate is set to a fast verify 
rate (i.e., low I/O rate), the system latency increases and performance can be 
negatively affected, especially for applications such as video server 
applications and audio applications. The Low Latency setting minimizes the 
latency (delay) in reading data from the RAID unit by slowing down the 
rebuild task, which allows host Reads to complete, thus improving 
performance.
For a more complete discussion of background task modes, see “Working 
with the Background Task Mode” in the 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller 
Card Software User Guide, Version 10.2.
Example:
 //localhost> /c1 set verifymode=lowlatency
 Setting Verify background task mode of /c1 to [lowlatency] ... Done.
Related commands: 
 /cx show verifymode
 /cx set verifyrate=<1..5>
 /cx show verifyrate
/cx set verifyrate=<1..5>
The /cx set verifyrate command sets the verify task rate of the specified 
controller. The verify task rate sets the verify execution priority relative to I/O 
operations. 
This task rate is in the range of [1..5], where 5 denotes the setting of fastest 
background task and slowest I/O, as follows:
 5 = fastest verify; slowest I/O
 4 = faster verify; slower I/O
 3 = balanced between verify and I/O
 2 = faster I/O; slower verify
 1 = fastest I/O; slowest verify
Example:
 //localhost> /c1 set verifyrate=2
 Setting Verify background task rate on /c1 to [2] (faster I/O) 
... Done.
Important: Setting verifymode to low latency and verifyrate to 5 is not 
recommended when I/O is active because, in that case, the verify as a background 
task might never complete. Use this setting with care.










