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From: Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru>
To: Marco <jjletho67-diar@yahoo.it>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid1 performance
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:19:26 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100725211926.7547c12e@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443220.14357.qm@web28508.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:58:37 +0000 (GMT)
Marco <jjletho67-diar@yahoo.it> wrote:

> doing a simple performance tests i obtained some very unexpected results: if
> i issue hdparm -t /dev/md2 i obtain 61 - 65 MB/s while issuing the same test 
> directly on the partitions which compose md2 (/dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3) i
> obtain 84 - 87 MB/s. I didn't expect a so big difference between md2 and one
> of its member. What can cause  this difference ? 

Maybe their read-ahead settings are different?
Check out "blockdev --getra /dev/md2", and compare that with the same
setting of the member disks. You can experiment with changing it by using
"--setra" as well.

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With respect,
Roman

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-25 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-25 14:58 raid1 performance Marco
2010-07-25 15:19 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2010-07-26  9:37   ` Marco
2010-07-26 10:24     ` Keld Simonsen
2010-07-26 10:53       ` John Robinson
2010-07-26 11:30         ` Keld Simonsen
2010-07-27 16:10       ` Marco
2010-07-26 11:03     ` Neil Brown
2010-07-27  1:23       ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-07-27 16:10       ` Marco
2010-07-27 22:23         ` Neil Brown
2010-07-28 12:10           ` Marco
2010-07-28 12:24             ` Neil Brown
2010-07-31 15:21           ` Marco
2010-07-31 16:04             ` Keld Simonsen
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2010-07-19 12:14 Marco
2004-04-21  5:57 RAID1: Performance Mike Mestnik

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