Remo Strotkamp wrote:
>
> > As far as I remember you should use sizes at least 4 times what
>
> you have as ram, for bonnie. As you have 1gig of ram (methinks that is
> cool, methinks want this too), and the max size for bonnies is 2gigs,
> you are in a certain dilemma here.
> Have you reduced the available ram with a kernel parameter??
> (i.e. mem=128m )???? did you do this test in single user mode???
Retested with with mem=256M:
free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 257412 32964 224448 1240 13268
2692
-/+ buffers/cache: 17004 240408
Swap: 2048276 5748 2042528
bonnie
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
--Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
2000 7230 98.3 37168 59.2 19576 55.8 8305 97.4 71834 58.3
339.7 6.6
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid5 sdh1[7] sdg1[5] sdf1[3] sde1[1] sdd1[6] sdc1[4]
sdb1[2] sda1[0] 106654848 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/7]
[UUUUUUU]
unused devices: <none>
I have one hot spare in this config...Lower mem didn't seem to slow it
down much...
Randy
