Re: raid5 high cpu usage during reads - oprofile results

2006-04-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Alex Izvorski wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:28 -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > > i'm guessing there's a good reason for STRIPE_SIZE being 4KiB -- 'cause > > otherwise it'd be cool to run with STRIPE_SIZE the same as your raid > > chunksize... which would decrease the number

Re: raid5 high cpu usage during reads - oprofile results

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Izvorski
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:28 -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > i'm guessing there's a good reason for STRIPE_SIZE being 4KiB -- 'cause > otherwise it'd be cool to run with STRIPE_SIZE the same as your raid > chunksize... which would decrease the number of entries -- much more > desirable than increasin

Re: addendum: was Re: recovering data on a failed raid-0 installation

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Hahn
> well? are you guys tapped out on this or should I be looking elsewhere? > The *was* the recommended place to seek out help. > still waiting netiquette hint: if you don't get a reply, you need to first verify that you provided all possible diagnostic info in a clear, succinct message, and

Re: sata controllers status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Hahn
> >Mar 29 23:33:26 A1 kernel: ata6: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error > >} > >Mar 29 23:33:26 A1 kernel: ata6: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } BadCRC is unambiguous: the packet was corrupted. that could happen several ways, the most common of which is bogus cables (remember, PAT

Re: raid5 high cpu usage during reads - oprofile results

2006-04-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Alex Izvorski wrote: > Dean - I think I see what you mean, you're looking at this line in the > assembly? > > 65830 16.8830 : c1f: cmp%rcx,0x28(%rax) yup that's the one... that's probably a fair number of cache (or tlb) misses going on right there. > I looked

Re: raid5 high cpu usage during reads - oprofile results

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Izvorski
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 21:38 -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Alex Izvorski wrote: > > > http://linuxraid.pastebin.com/621363 - oprofile annotated assembly > > it looks to me like a lot of time is spent in __find_stripe() ... i wonder > if the hash is working properly. > > in ra

Re: Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ?

2006-04-01 Thread Brad Campbell
Christopher Smith wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: I've been running 3 together in one box for about 18 months, and four in another for a year now... the on board BIOS will only pickup 8 drives, but they work just fine under Linux and recognise all connected drives. What distro and kernel ? Err

Re: sata controllers status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

2006-04-01 Thread David Greaves
Mitchell Laks wrote: >Hi, > >I have a production server in place at a remote site. >I have a single system drive that is an ide drive >and two data drives that are on a via SATA controller in a raid1 >configuration. > >I am monitoring the /var/log/messages and I get messages every few days > >M

Re: Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ?

2006-04-01 Thread Christopher Smith
Brad Campbell wrote: I've been running 3 together in one box for about 18 months, and four in another for a year now... the on board BIOS will only pickup 8 drives, but they work just fine under Linux and recognise all connected drives. What distro and kernel ? I tried this about 2 - 3 months

Re: addendum: was Re: recovering data on a failed raid-0 installation

2006-04-01 Thread Technomage
On Friday 31 March 2006 22:27, Mike Hardy wrote: > Well, honestly I'm not really sure. I've never done this as I only use > the redundant raid levels, and when they're gone, things are a complete > hash and there's no hope. In fact, with raid-0 (striping, right? not > linear/append?) I believe you