Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Greg Lehey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:33:19AM +0930: [...] depends on what you're trying to do. But yes, having only two controllers will halve your RAID-5 write performance. Note also that with a 256 kB stripe, you'll run into drive contention problems because all your

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Smith
Greg Lehey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:33:19AM +0930: [...] depends on what you're trying to do. But yes, having only two controllers will halve your RAID-5 write performance. Note also that with a 256 kB stripe, you'll run into drive contention problems because all

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-10 Thread Esko Petteri Matinsola
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 22:24:51 +0300, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: Please don't use bonnie. It's not measuring what you think it is. OK, I used rawio as you suggested. I don't know how you'd find anything at vinumvm.org which tells you

Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Esko Petteri Matinsola
Thank you for your last reply about the Promise 100 controller, I got it working with that patch. But now, I have Asus P2L97 mobo with 64MB RAM, 266MHz P2 and 4 Maxtor 54098H8's, two per channel. OS is FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE. When I use vinum with the following config: drive drive0 device

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Clark Shishido
At 22:24 +0300 2000.09.08, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: read performance and seeks seems OK, but block writes only about 1/9th ! As I read from www.vinumvm.org I should get something like 5MBps block writes. Have I misunderstood something, configured someting improperly, it's because of only

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 22:24:51 +0300, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: Thank you for your last reply about the Promise 100 controller, I got it working with that patch. But now, I have Asus P2L97 mobo with 64MB RAM, 266MHz P2 and 4 Maxtor 54098H8's, two per channel. OS is FreeBSD

RE: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Brandon Gale
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:03 PM To: Esko Petteri Matinsola; Clark Shishido Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 22:24:51 +0300