On 09/28/2010 01:45 AM, Alexander Motin wrote:
Stephen Sanders wrote:
I'm trying a disk throughput experiment where in two 3ware raid 6's are
being put into a g_strip raid 0.
The raid 6's are using 8 7200RPM disks. The disk transfer rate is
~80MB/s. Using a load generation tool that is using O_DIRECT for I/O,
I've generated the following short output from iostat. Needless to say,
the write performance is a lot less than I'm expecting.
We've modified the kernel such that our KB/t figure is closer to 512KB/t
per disk when measured without the g_strip. With g_strip turned on, the
KB/t number is more like 60KB/t.
The question is how do I get g_stripe to write larger transactions to
the disk ?
How old is your system? There was bug, fixed 8-12 months ago, making
fast mode in gstripe not working on systems with increased MAXPHYS. As I
understand, it is what you've changed in your kernel.
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I merged all of the suggestions and
got a good result.
What worked in the end was to upgrade to FreeBSD 8.1 and :
* MAXPHYS is upped to be at least stripe_size * number_of_drives
(and possibly 2x that, to use "fast mode" of gstripe)
* vfs.hirunningspace is > MAXPHYS
* the driver supports IOs of at least your stripe_size
* the file system doesn't introduce unnecessary choppiness in IO
(i.e. use soft-updates)
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