From: Andy Warner <andyw@pobox.com>
To: Marc Bevand <bevand_m@epita.fr>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata problems with 66Mhz Promise SATA150 TX4
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:08:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915080812.A7683@florence.linkmargin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915090212.GA3493@hwi.epita.fr>; from bevand_m@epita.fr on Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:02:12AM +0200
Marc Bevand wrote:
> Andy Warner wrote:
> | [...]
> | I'm observing a lower throughput than that, though ~60MB/s; so I'm
> | going to check to see if there is something else throttling
> | performance, below the point of failure.
>
> Personally, I am using a blocksize of 32k with 'dd' in order to reach
> 215 MB/s, and I set the readahead to 256 on all the disks:
>
> $ blockdev --setra 256 /dev/sdX
>
> To satisfy my curiosity, could you sent me an excerpt of 'vmstat 1' while
> stressing your disks like this ? Thanks.
I reconfigured the system so the TX4 was the only adapter on
the 100MHz PCI-X bus, and re-ran the tests - I'm now seeing ~200MB/s
with dd (bs=1M) and ~110MB/s with sg_utils. It ran for 9 hours
overnight without error.
Here's the vmstat output you requested.
First using dd to read the disks:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 4 0 1067520 856456 71224 0 0 225 3 18 166 0 20 50 30
1 3 0 1067584 856360 71320 0 0 195320 188 2845 3685 0 23 49 29
1 3 0 1066640 857356 71364 0 0 196352 4 2806 3703 0 22 51 26
3 2 0 1066688 857252 71208 0 0 194688 32 2781 3633 0 23 52 25
1 3 0 1067712 856380 71040 0 0 195712 0 2810 3667 0 23 51 26
0 4 0 1066624 857392 71068 0 0 190976 16 2762 3564 0 23 51 27
0 4 0 1067840 856172 71248 0 0 196864 0 2825 3696 0 23 49 28
4 2 0 1066368 857496 70964 0 0 193792 36 2770 3613 0 22 52 26
1 4 0 1067648 856388 71292 0 0 195200 0 2772 3586 0 23 53 25
1 3 0 1066752 857348 71112 0 0 193832 44 2793 3596 0 22 52 26
1 4 0 1068104 855976 71184 0 0 196952 32 2846 3729 0 23 45 32
0 4 0 1067272 856848 71092 0 0 197120 0 2812 3689 0 24 47 30
3 2 0 1066696 857392 71328 0 0 195368 24 2806 3675 0 23 48 30
0 4 0 1067208 856880 71060 0 0 195160 0 2801 3688 0 23 48 29
1 3 0 1066364 857732 71248 0 0 195584 4 2835 3695 0 23 44 33
2 3 0 1067656 856496 71184 0 0 196864 0 2899 3831 0 24 37 39
2 3 0 1067656 856464 70956 0 0 195200 0 2833 3708 0 24 41 35
0 4 0 1066784 857312 71148 0 0 194688 24 2840 3718 0 24 42 34
1 3 0 1067672 856516 71164 0 0 195512 0 2860 3717 0 24 40 37
3 2 0 1066584 857572 71148 0 0 197448 0 2814 3706 0 24 48 28
1 3 0 1067608 856520 71160 0 0 195840 0 2812 3644 0 23 49 28
Now using sg_utils to read the disks:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 0 1927480 1752 74688 0 0 195 3 63 221 0 20 50 30
0 0 0 1927480 1752 74688 0 0 0 0 10576 18441 2 8 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1752 74688 0 0 0 0 10700 18677 2 8 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1752 74688 0 0 0 0 10668 18609 2 8 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1752 74688 0 0 0 0 10770 18773 1 9 89 0
0 1 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 40 10753 18747 2 8 90 0
2 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10682 18605 2 9 90 0
2 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10571 18342 2 9 88 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10618 18515 2 8 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10564 18311 2 9 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10764 18736 2 9 89 0
1 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10640 18513 2 9 89 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10836 18908 2 9 89 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10795 18805 1 8 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10676 18616 2 8 90 0
1 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10529 18346 2 8 89 0
1 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10727 18728 2 8 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10627 18534 2 9 90 0
0 0 0 1927480 1760 74680 0 0 0 0 10676 18640 2 8 90 0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 21:14 libata problems with 66Mhz Promise SATA150 TX4 Paul Fisher
2004-09-14 18:03 ` Marc Bevand
2004-09-14 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 0:18 ` Andy Warner
2004-09-15 9:02 ` Marc Bevand
2004-09-15 13:08 ` Andy Warner [this message]
2004-09-15 13:45 ` Marc Bevand
2004-10-04 9:10 ` Generic bug/race in the IDE/SATA code ? Marc Bevand
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