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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:55:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080205225534.GA32053@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802051726510.10352@p34.internal.lan>

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:28:27PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> 
> >Could you give some figures?
> 
> I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed 
> (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, but input 
> was closer to RAID5 speeds/did not seem affected (~550MiB/s).

Impressive. What levet of raid10 was involved? and what type of
equipment, how many disks? Maybe the better output for raid5 could be
due to some striping - AFAIK raid5 will be striping quite well, and 
writes almost equal to reading time indicates that the writes are
striping too.

best regards
keld

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 18:21 which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0) Janek Kozicki
2008-01-30 22:00 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-30 22:36   ` Janek Kozicki
2008-01-31  1:55     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-01-31 14:01       ` Janek Kozicki
2008-02-05 16:10       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-02-05 16:54         ` Justin Piszcz
2008-02-05 20:04           ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-02-05 22:28             ` Justin Piszcz
2008-02-05 22:52               ` Janek Kozicki
2008-02-06  9:06                 ` Peter Rabbitson
     [not found]                 ` <47A9F96E.7050307@tmr.com>
2008-02-06 22:15                   ` Janek Kozicki
2008-02-05 22:55               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2008-02-05 22:58                 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-01-31 15:30 ` Bill Davidsen

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