From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:19:50 -0500 From: zoo1@corecomm.net Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Apparent performance degradation for each PV with striping Message-ID: <20010322071950.A21329@bar.nowhere> References: <01C0B04F.5EFB3400.smdenton@bellsouth.net> <3AB60D44.3036CD9C@wrkhors.com> <0103220954110L.00851@lyta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KsGdsel6WgEHnImy" In-Reply-To: <0103220954110L.00851@lyta>; from bofh@coker.com.au on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:54:11AM +0100 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:54:11AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: >What is a K400? possibly he means a HP PA-RISC 9000 K4xx class machine, but i can't speak for him. the K-class is now quite old; i don't think there was anything industry standard or nonproprietary in them other than their SCSI busses, unless you count the network interfaces or the serial ports - they used HP proprietary bus architectures throughout. their CPUs are something to be seen; imagine a 10cm-by-12cm circuitboard surrounded by about 10 kg of sheet-metal copper plate acting as a heatsink. clock speed? up to about 200 MHz, IIRC. i've no idea what their bus throughput might be. if they use a crossbar, possibly high, but i just don't know if they do. >Every test that I run shows SPARC machines running slower than desktop=20 >machines with IA32 CPUs. My Athlon-800 machine has more memory bandwidth= =20 >than an E450 according to the industry standard "streams" benchmark and=20 >according to a little memory benchmark I wrote. =20 try benchmarking the E450's bus. load it with a full complement of disk backplanes and two or three gigabit ethernets and stress test that; see if you can find any IA32 machine to even come close. Sun has never had fast CPU's, but they're I/O speed demons, always have been. >Also a single IBM 46G ATA=20 >drive in my Athlon outperforms A1000 arrays in E450 class hardware. couldn't speak about those, i've no experience with the A1000. for serious storage, you'd naturally use 10K RPM drives in RAID configurations, and i'd be extremely surprised if the bus you connect the drives up with had more impact than the rotational speed and seek time; unless you're bottlenecking the bus, in which case you've made a design error there. --=20 PGP/GnuPG key (ID 1024D/BFE0D6D0) available from keyservers everywhere "Everything I am today, I owe to people whom it is now too late to punish." --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ue3mNfZCE7/g1tARAkSlAJ9fXQq5WxyLq2HKPqkApyEjgbYeNgCfXYjC szTEporLHMVjkNKlzO3zTLw= =AB8P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KsGdsel6WgEHnImy--