Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:11:35PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:57:42 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:51:57PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > > > Not sure I fully understand what you're trying to say, but it seems like > > > > it m

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:19:06 -0700 "Luke Lonergan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > On 7/29/05 12:51 PM, "Mark Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Adaptec 2200s > > Have you tried non-RAID SCSI controllers in this configuration? When we > used the Adaptec 2120s previously, we got very

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:35:32 -0700 Josh Berkus wrote: > Mark, > > > I have done that before actually, when the tablespace patch came out. I > > was able to get almost 40% more throughput with half the drives than > > striping all the disks together. > > That's not the figures you showed me.

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, > I have done that before actually, when the tablespace patch came out. I > was able to get almost 40% more throughput with half the drives than > striping all the disks together. That's not the figures you showed me. In your report last year it was 14%, not 40%. -- Josh Berkus Aglio

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:57:42 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:51:57PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > > Not sure I fully understand what you're trying to say, but it seems like > > > it might still be worth trying my original idea of just turning all 80 > >

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:51:57PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > Not sure I fully understand what you're trying to say, but it seems like > > it might still be worth trying my original idea of just turning all 80 > > disks into one giant RAID0/striped array and see how much more bandwidth > > you get

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:39:08 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:00:44PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:55:55 -0700 > > Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:48:09 -0500 > > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:00:44PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:55:55 -0700 > Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:48:09 -0500 > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:31PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > >

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Wong
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:55:55 -0700 Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:48:09 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:31PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:17:25 -0500 > > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Wong
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:48:09 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:31PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:17:25 -0500 > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > >

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:31PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:17:25 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > > This 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s controllers attached > > > > to

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Wong
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:17:25 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > This 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s controllers attached > > > to 80 spindles (eight 10-disk arrays). For those familiar with the > > >

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Wong
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:19:34 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:14:41PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:31:39PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > > After seeing the discussion about how bad the disk performance is with a > > > lot of sc

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:14:41PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:31:39PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > > After seeing the discussion about how bad the disk performance is with a > > lot of scsi controllers on linux, I'm wondering if we should run some > > disk tests to see how

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > This 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s controllers attached > > to 80 spindles (eight 10-disk arrays). For those familiar with the > > schema, here is a visual of the disk layout: > > http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:31:39PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote: > After seeing the discussion about how bad the disk performance is with a > lot of scsi controllers on linux, I'm wondering if we should run some > disk tests to see how things look. I'd be very interested to see how FreeBSD compares to L

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-27 Thread Mark Wong
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Mark, > > > I'm starting to get results with dbt2 on a 4-way opteron system and > > wanted to share what I've got so far since people have told me in the > > past that this architecture is more interesting than the itanium2 that > > I'

Re: [HACKERS] [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

2005-07-27 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, > I'm starting to get results with dbt2 on a 4-way opteron system and > wanted to share what I've got so far since people have told me in the > past that this architecture is more interesting than the itanium2 that > I've been using. > > This 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s co