From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christophe Varoqui Subject: Re: dd slow while reading on multipathing, writing is fast Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:03:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1297249393.29348.17.camel@zezette> References: <638331349.4388161297176246800.JavaMail.root@tendai.telenet-ops.be> Reply-To: christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com, device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <638331349.4388161297176246800.JavaMail.root@tendai.telenet-ops.be> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On mar., 2011-02-08 at 15:44 +0100, bart.coninckx@telenet.be wrote: > Hi all, > > something peculiar I cannot get my head round. > I have a setup where a backup server connects to iSCSI LUNs over multipathing. > While dd-ing to it, I get a spiffing 200 MB/sec, while reading it drops to 70 MB/sec. Local storage where I write the image onto is sufficiently fast. > > Do you think this is multipathing related? I'm running the latest version from source. > please send at least - kernel version - multipath tools version - device map string