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From: TJ <systemloc@earthlink.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:17:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412051017.13228.systemloc@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412041809530.21262-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>

> for comparison, a fairly crappy SiS 735-based k7 system with
> 64b-wide PC2100 can deliver maybe 1.2 GB/s dram bandwidth.
> hdparm -T is about 500 MB/s, and would probably have trouble
> breaking 200 MB/s with raid0 even if it had enough buses.
>
> an older server of mine is e7500-based, dual xeon/2.4's, with
> 2xPC1600 ram.  it sustains about 1.6 GB/s on Stream, and about
> 500 MB/s hdparm -T, and can sustain 250 MB/s through it's 6-disk
> raid without any problem.

hmmm.. In these cases, how does the throughput exceed the PCI bandwidth? Do 
these boards have multiple busses? PCI-X?

TJ Harrell

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 16:38 Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance TJ
2004-12-03  0:49 ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-03  3:54   ` Guy
2004-12-03  6:33     ` TJ
2004-12-03  7:38       ` Guy
2004-12-04 15:23     ` TJ
2004-12-04 17:59       ` Guy
2004-12-04 23:51         ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-05  1:00           ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 17:48             ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 19:29               ` Guy
2004-12-06 21:10                 ` David Greaves
2004-12-06 23:02                   ` Guy
2004-12-08  9:24                     ` David Greaves
2004-12-08 18:31                       ` Guy
2004-12-08 22:00                         ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-08 22:25                           ` Guy
2004-12-08 22:41                             ` Guy
2004-12-09  1:40                               ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-12  8:56                               ` Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance - a test script David Greaves
2004-12-28  0:13                                 ` Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 21:16                 ` Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance Steven Ihde
2004-12-06 21:42                   ` documentation of /sys/vm/max-readahead Morten Sylvest Olsen
2004-12-05  2:16           ` Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance Guy
2004-12-05 15:14             ` TJ
2004-12-06 21:39               ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-05 15:17           ` TJ [this message]
2004-12-06 21:34             ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-06 23:06               ` Guy
2004-12-03  6:51   ` TJ
2004-12-03 20:03   ` TJ
2004-12-04 22:59     ` Mark Hahn
2004-12-03  7:12 ` TJ
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-03 11:30 TJ
2004-12-03 11:46 ` Erik Mouw
2004-12-03 15:09   ` TJ
2004-12-03 16:25     ` Erik Mouw
2004-12-03 16:32   ` David Greaves
2004-12-03 16:50     ` Guy

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