Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes: >The solution is to re-engineer the way that I/O buffers pass through >the kernel and only assign KVA when needed (for doing software parity >calculations, for example). I've hacked up a prototype to do this and there is no doubt that this is the

Re: Very low disk performance on 5.x

2005-05-08 Thread Scott Long
Steven Hartland wrote: Summary of results: RAID0: Changing vfs.read_max 8 -> 16 and MAXPHYS 128k -> 1M increased read performance significantly from 129Mb/s to 199MB/s Max raw device speed here was 234Mb/s FS -> Raw device: 35Mb/s 14.9% performance loss RAID5: Changing vfs.read_max 8 -> 16 produced