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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: adfas asd <chimera_god@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disappointing RAID10 Performance
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:27:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091016212749.GA997@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <364346.70897.qm@web38808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:32:14AM -0700, adfas asd wrote:
> I was hoping to get better performance with RAID10 than from the raw disks, but that's turned out to not be the case.  Experimenting with the readahead buffer I get these bandwidths with the following command:
> # time dd if={somelarge}.iso of=/dev/null bs={readahead size}
> 
> /dev/sd?
>  1024 71.3 MB/s
>  2048 71.2 MB/s
>  4096 77.7 MB/s
>  8192 69.4 MB/s
>  16384 76.6 MB/s
> 
> /dev/md2
>  1024  67.1
>  2048  69.1
>  4096  75.7
>  8192  64.9
>  16384 69.0
> 
> Using RAID10offset2 on 2 WD 2TB drives, and always the same input file.
> 
> Why would RAID10 performance be -poorer-? 
> If it weren't for mirroring, this wouldn't be worth it.

try with layout=far - it is good for reading big files, maybe a factor 2
faster than layout=offset.

More on performance:
http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Performance

Best regards
keld

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 17:32 Disappointing RAID10 Performance adfas asd
2009-10-16 17:36 ` Majed B.
2009-10-16 18:10 ` Rob Becker
2009-10-16 21:05   ` adfas asd
2009-10-21 23:26     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-16 18:30 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-17 16:12   ` Asdo
2009-10-17 16:20     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-17 21:35     ` Majed B.
2009-10-18 11:01       ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-16 21:20 ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-18 12:06   ` adfas asd
2009-10-16 21:27 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2009-10-17  6:03 ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-18 12:17   ` adfas asd
     [not found] <7bc80d500910161433l49cbf599m80310082b6fdaa97@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-18 12:14 ` adfas asd

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