Roch Bourbonnais wrote:
>
> Le 20 juin 07 à 04:59, Ian Collins a écrit :
>
>>>
>> I'm not sure why, but when I was testing various configurations with
>> bonnie++, 3 pairs of mirrors did give about 3x the random read
>> performance of a 6 disk raidz, but with 4 pairs, the random read
>> performance dropped by 50%:
>>
>> 3x2
>> Block    read:  220464
>> Random read: 1520.1
>>
>> 4x2
>> Block     read:  295747
>> Random read:  765.3 
>
> Did you recreate the pool from scratch or did you add a pair of disk
> to the existing mirror ?
> If starting from scratch, I'm stumped. But for the later, the problem
> might lie in the data population.
> The newly added mirror might have gotten a larger share of the added
> data and restitution did not target all disks
> evenly.
>
>From scratch.  Each test was run on a new pool with one filesystem.

Ian

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