Re: Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-11 Thread Jeremy Davis
Thanks for all the feedback, I'll be back in 2 weeks and pick up then. -JD On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: > > Yeah, it has a BBU, and it is charged and on.. > > Very odd behavior, I'm stumped. > > I advise double-checking raid volume settings and ensuring that policy > is

Re: Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Schuller
> Yeah, it has a BBU, and it is charged and on.. > Very odd behavior, I'm stumped. I advise double-checking raid volume settings and ensuring that policy is truly such that the write cache is used. This may also be a function of kernel driver settings depending on what RAID controller/kernel versi

Re: Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-10 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Other activity, e.g. syslog? Journaling at the FS level? you could try making a small partition formatted as ext2. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote: > Yeah, it has a BBU, and it is charged and on.. > Very odd behavior, I'm stumped. > > -JD > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM,

Re: Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-10 Thread Jeremy Davis
Yeah, it has a BBU, and it is charged and on.. Very odd behavior, I'm stumped. -JD On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Peter Schuller < peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: > I have no explanation for the slower reads, but I have an hypothesis > on the writes. > > Your iostat shows: > > > Device:

Re: Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Schuller
I have no explanation for the slower reads, but I have an hypothesis on the writes. Your iostat shows: > Device: rrqm/s   wrqm/s r/s w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz > avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util > cciss/c0d0    0.00   908.50    0.00  110.50 0.00  8152.00    > 73.77

Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-09 Thread Jeremy Davis
I have a weird one to share with the list, Using a separate commit log drive dropped my performance a lot more than I would expect... I'm doing perf tests on 3 identical machines but with 3 different drive sets. (SAS 15K,10K, and SATA 7.5K) Each system has a single system disk (Same as the data se