From: "Donghui Wen" <dhwen@protegonetworks.com>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3ware bad write speed.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:49:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004501c2f23e$8c2b5760$df01010a@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0303240912080.2059-100000@chaos.egr.duke.edu
Thanks! Joshua:
We are runing oracle on rehat advanced server 2.1. Oracle only certified
this version of redhat with ext2. That' why we could not switch to another
linux
or file system. :-(
Donghui
> The card is capable of much better than that. Here are my numbers from a
> 7 disk RAID5 array (8th is a hot spare) on a 7500-8 board:
>
> Sequential Writes
> File Blk Num Avg
> Maximum
> Lat% Lat% CPU
> Identifier Size Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Latency
> Latency
> >2s >10s Eff
> ---------------------------- ------ ----- --- ------ ------ ---------
> ---------
> -- -------- -------- -----
> 2.4.18-17SGI_XFS_1.2pre3smp 4096 4096 1 49.50 20.52% 0.068
> 2915.
> 71 0.00124 0.00000 241
> 2.4.18-17SGI_XFS_1.2pre3smp 4096 4096 2 45.17 23.21% 0.141
> 7873.
> 45 0.00343 0.00000 195
> 2.4.18-17SGI_XFS_1.2pre3smp 4096 4096 4 39.98 23.29% 0.335
> 13338.
> 23 0.00887 0.00010 172
> 2.4.18-17SGI_XFS_1.2pre3smp 4096 4096 8 39.23 24.30% 0.631
> 7887.
> 96 0.01535 0.00000 161
>
> Obviously I've got more spindles, but your speeds shouldn't be *that* bad.
> Some things to check:
>
> 1) You said latest drivers, but make sure that you upgraded everything --
> a driver set from 3ware is driver+firmware+3dm. Specifically, make sure
> your firmware is up to date with your driver.
>
> 2) Make sure that your kernel supports HIGHIO. I don't know if that
> enterprise kernel does (do you need to run it?), but it makes a *big*
> difference. The latest 3ware drivers support HIGHIO, but the kernel needs
> to as well.
>
> 3) Make sure your drives are listed as compatible.
>
> 4) Try a different FS. The numbers above are with XFS -- with ext3 I was
> getting write speeds of only half that (at best).
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-24 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-22 20:45 3ware bad write speed Donghui Wen
2003-03-24 14:18 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2003-03-24 19:49 ` Donghui Wen [this message]
2003-03-26 0:40 ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-03-26 15:55 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2003-04-02 7:20 ` Christian Diehl
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2003-03-22 21:07 Rechenberg, Andrew
2003-03-22 21:36 ` Donghui Wen
2003-03-22 23:34 Rechenberg, Andrew
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