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From: Brian Davis <bridavis@comcast.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Negligible improvement when using su/sw for hardware RAID5, expected?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:10:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DD46A5.7010308@comcast.net> (raw)

Is this expected? I thought I would see more improvement when tweaking 
my su/sw values for hardware RAID 5.

Details, 3x300GB drives, 3Ware 7506-4LP Hardware RAID 5 using a 64K 
stripe size (non-configurable on this card).

FS creation and Bonnie++ results:

Untweaked:---------------------------------------------------------------------- 


localhost / # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda1
meta-data=/dev/sda1              isize=256    agcount=32, agsize=4578999 
blks
        =                       sectsz=512   attr=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=146527968, imaxpct=25
        =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=1
        =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0
localhost / # mount -t xfs /dev/sda1 /raid
localhost / # cd /raid
localhost raid # bonnie++ -n0 -u0 -r 768 -s 30720 -b -f
Using uid:0, gid:0.
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...done...done...
Version 1.93c       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- 
--Random-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- 
--Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  
/sec %CP
localhost       30G           27722  40 23847  37           98367  99  
88.6  11
Latency                         891ms     693ms             16968us     
334ms

Tweaked:------------------------------------------------------------------------- 


localhost / # mkfs.xfs -f -d sw=2,su=64k /dev/sda1
meta-data=/dev/sda1              isize=256    agcount=32, agsize=4578992 
blks
        =                       sectsz=512   attr=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=146527744, imaxpct=25
        =                       sunit=16     swidth=32 blks, unwritten=1
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=1
        =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0
localhost / # mount -t xfs /dev/sda1 /raid
localhost / # cd /raid
localhost raid # bonnie++ -n0 -u0 -r 768 -s 30720 -b -f
Using uid:0, gid:0.
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...done...done...
Version 1.93c       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- 
--Random-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- 
--Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  
/sec %CP
localhost       30G           27938  43 23880  40           98066  99  
91.8   9
Latency                         772ms     584ms             19889us     
340ms

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-12  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-12  3:10 Brian Davis [this message]
2006-08-14  8:51 ` Negligible improvement when using su/sw for hardware RAID5, expected? utz lehmann
2006-08-14 13:29   ` Brian Davis
2006-08-14 15:08     ` Sebastian Brings

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