Re: [Consult-list] Re: dm-multipath has great throughput but we'd like more!

[Richard Keech <rkeech@redhat.com>]

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Nicholas C. Strugnell wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:04 +0200, Nicholas C. Strugnell wrote: 
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>>On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 08:44 +0100, Bob Gautier wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 02:25 -0500, Jonathan E Brassow wrote:
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>>>>The system bus isn't a limiting factor is it?  64-bit PCI-X will get 
>>>>8.5 GB/s (plenty), but 32-bit PCI 33MHz got 133MB/s.
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>>>>Can your disks sustain that much bandwidth? 10 striped drives might get 
>>>>better than 200MB/s if done right, I suppose.
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>>It might make sense to test raw writes to a device with dd and see if
>>that gets comparable performance figures - I'll just try that myself
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>write throughput to EVA 8000 (8GB write cache), host DL380 with 2x2Gb/s
>HBAs, 2GB RAM
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>testing 4GB files:
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>on filesystems: bonnie++ -d /mnt/tmp -s 4g -f -n 0 -u root
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>ext3: 129MB/s sd=0.43
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I presume this is with journal=ordered.  Try with journel=writeback.  
I've seen benchmarks which suggest it can be close to the speed of ext2.

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