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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Christian Pernegger <pernegger@gmail.com>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: raid10 vs raid5 - strange performance
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:55:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080330085528.GC17756@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EEA5BB.5080106@tmr.com>

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 04:25:31PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Christian Pernegger wrote:
> 
> The md raid10,f2 generally has modest write performance, if U is a 
> single drive speed, write might range between 1.5U to (N-1)/2*U 
> depending on tuning. Read speed is almost always (N-1)*U, which is great 
> for many applications. Playing with chunk size, chunk buffers, etc, can 
> make a large difference in write performance.

Hmm, I have other formulae for this. raid10,f2 write speed would rather
be U*N/2, and read speed be U*N - possibly enhanced by also having
bigger chunks than on a regular non-raid disk, and enhanced by lower
access times. The formulae are bothe for sequential and random reads.

Best regards
keld

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-30  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 21:33 raid10 vs raid5 - strange performance Christian Pernegger
2008-03-25 22:13 ` David Rees
2008-03-25 22:56   ` Christian Pernegger
2008-03-26 16:29     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-03-26 17:10       ` Christian Pernegger
2008-03-26 17:49         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-25 23:36 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
     [not found]   ` <bb145bd20803251837x7ef1fa9dk6191fcaea7b02144@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20080326072416.GA8674@rap.rap.dk>
2008-03-26 17:16       ` Christian Pernegger
2008-03-26 19:29         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-27  1:11           ` Christian Pernegger
2008-03-27  9:18             ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
     [not found]           ` <47EAACAB.7070203@tmr.com>
2008-03-27  2:02             ` Christian Pernegger
2008-03-29 20:25               ` Bill Davidsen
2008-03-29 21:26                 ` Iustin Pop
2008-03-30  8:55                 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2008-03-30  9:34                   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-30 11:16                     ` Peter Grandi
2008-03-30 12:58                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-03-30 14:21                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen

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