Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-29 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 02:36:10PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote: > > ... > > bonnie & bonnie > > > > Two threads :) > > > What i don't understand is that how it can then drop > to half what it was on normal partition ? Shouldn't > it be just a little less. Oh, sorry, I misse

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-29 Thread Mika Kuoppala
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:43:04AM -0400, Michael Cunningham wrote: > > > This should be clarified in the docs alright... > ... > > > However, if concurrent reads take place, you will see a performance gain from > > > the read distribution. > > >

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-29 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:50:36AM +0200, Thomas Waldmann wrote: > > If you run two bonnies you will see that your read performance gets better > > (well the sum of the read performance will be superior to that of one disk). > > The question in that case is: is that because of superior RAID1 tran

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-29 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:43:04AM -0400, Michael Cunningham wrote: > > This should be clarified in the docs alright... ... > > However, if concurrent reads take place, you will see a performance gain from > > the read distribution. > > So if we modify bonnie or use some other tool (any ideas?) t

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-29 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> If you run two bonnies you will see that your read performance gets better > (well the sum of the read performance will be superior to that of one disk). The question in that case is: is that because of superior RAID1 transfer rate or because of the fact, that 2 bonnies run on the same disk wou

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Michael Cunningham
> This should be clarified in the docs alright... > > If you run two bonnies you will see that your read performance gets better > (well the sum of the read performance will be superior to that of one disk). > > RAID-1 will distribute reads to the two disks, but it's not a gain if you > only rea

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Andy Poling
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Mika Kuoppala wrote: > Here is my results for Raid-1 read performance weirdness: > > Raid 1: Chunk size 4k: /dev/md1: > > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Tom Livingston
Michael Cunningham wrote: > Unfortunatly on reads on a raid 1 array i am seeing about what it would > be for a single drive:( definatly not even close to 2x. I was wrong. I just went back and looked at my tests, and I was recalling raid 0 tests. My raid 1 tests show this as well, no benefit fro

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Michael Cunningham
> What is your chunk size set at in the raidtab file? In my testing, I've 4k chunk size is what i use as well. > this isn't to say that there aren't room for improvements in software raid > performance, as even with a 4k chunksize performance will level off after > four drives, eventually dropp

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Tom Livingston
Michael Cunningham wrote: > Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 1.87 seconds =17.11 MB/sec > > I can understand the write performance but I would think the read > performance would be better given that it should be reading from both > halves of the mirror? What is your chunk size set at in th

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:18:32PM +0200, Thomas Waldmann wrote: ... > > > I can understand the write performance but I would think the read > > performance would be better given that it should be reading from both > > halves of the mirror? > > It was NOT better here, too. I also wondered about

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Mika Kuoppala
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stanley, Jeremy wrote: > If I knew of a SEARCHABLE archive for this list, I'd cite a specific > example. Suffice it to say that Ingo commented on this about a month > ago, saying that some of the new changes to the RAID-1 code may have > caused a worse-than-single-disk deg

RE: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
gham; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid performance? good? > [clip] > It was NOT better here, too. I also wondered about that because the > docs say > sth different. > [snip]

Re: raid performance? good?

1999-10-28 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> Is this good software raid performance for a Yes. At least similar to that what I got on a SCSI 2 * 9GB system. > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential InputRandom-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --BlockSeeks--- > MachineMB K/se

raid performance? good?

1999-10-27 Thread Michael Cunningham
Is this good software raid performance for a Dual celeron 500 mhz 128 mb ram abit bp6 mb using the htp66 controller in dma 33 mode 2 x 18 gig ibm dma 33 drives Running kernel 2.2.13ac1, big ide patch (latest as of today), 2.2.14pre1 as well.. Its a raid 1 mirror with each disk alone on its own i