On 10/27/06 18:03, Steve Peterson wrote:
I recently set up a media server for home use and decided to try the
gvinum raid5 support to learn about it and see how it performs. It
seems slower than I'd expect -- a little under 6MB/second, with about
50 IOs/drive/second -- and I'm trying to understand why. Any
assistance/pointers would be appreciated.
The disk system consists of 4 Seagate NL35 SATA ST3250623NS drives
connected to a Promise TX4300 (PDC40719) controller, organized as a
RAID5 volume via gvinum using this configuration:
drive drive01 device /dev/ad10
drive drive02 device /dev/ad6
drive drive03 device /dev/ad4
drive drive04 device /dev/ad8
volume vol1
plex org raid5 256k
sd length 200001m drive drive01
sd length 200001m drive drive02
sd length 200001m drive drive03
sd length 200001m drive drive04
dd reports the following performance on a 1G file write to the RAID5
hosted volume:
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=big.file bs=1m count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 179.717742 secs (5834571 bytes/sec)
179.76 real 0.02 user 16.60 sys
By comparison, creating the same file on the system disk (an old ATA
ST380021A connected via a SIS 730 on the motherboard):
time dd if=/dev/zero of=big.file bs=1m count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 28.264056 secs (37099275 bytes/sec)
28.32 real 0.01 user 19.13 sys
and vmstat reports about 280-300 IOs/second to that drive.
The CPU is pretty weak -- an Athlon 750. Is that the source of my
problem? If you look at the vmstat output below the machine is busy
but not pegged.
Try the dd to the raw gvinum device instead of through a filesystem, and
also to the individual disks. That will at least tell us where to look.
Eric
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Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology
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