From: Stuart Harper <StuartHarper@tampabay.rr.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 seems to chop performance by 33%
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:05:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406101105.47606.StuartHarper@tampabay.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C86F52.4090500@dgreaves.com>
While doing backups of my LVM2 drive, I've found that setting the DD block
size to 4096 greatly improved my performance. Formerly, DDs on my 240G LVM
were taking 23hrs to complete with a block size of 512 or 1024. The same
volume now takes less than 2 hours with a block size of 4096. Large numbers
did not seem to increase DD speed.
On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:25 am, David Greaves wrote:
> 65Mb/s on the raid5 device
> 44Mb/s on the lv
>
> Is this expected?
>
> Kernel 2.6.6
>
> representative dd's:
>
> cu:/huge/editing/tmp# time dd if=/dev/video_vg/video_lv of=/dev/null
> bs=1024k count=4k
> David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-10 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-10 14:25 [linux-lvm] LVM2 seems to chop performance by 33% David Greaves
2004-06-10 15:05 ` Stuart Harper [this message]
2004-06-10 15:31 ` Chris Croswhite
2004-06-10 15:34 ` David Greaves
2004-06-10 16:30 ` Clint Byrum
2004-06-20 18:17 ` David Greaves
2004-06-20 19:53 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2004-06-21 9:55 ` David Greaves
2004-06-14 11:50 ` Miguel Cabeça
2004-06-14 13:24 ` David Greaves
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