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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Life's too short ...(Raid 1 sync times)
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:40:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4042401D.9010606@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40423D29.1050401@sauce.co.nz>

Richard Scobie wrote:
> I am in the process of benchmarking a 4 x 250GB on 3ware 7506 to try and
> sort out the myriad of options for RAID and XFS, in order to get best
> performance for my workload.
> 
> I have tested with software RAID5 and have just attempted to do the same
> for software RAID 10. Unfortunately, it is going to take 31000 minutes,
> or around 21 days to sync this array and I wish to test 3 different
> stripe sizes. Is there some way to allow more bandwidth for the sync up?
> 
> The RAID 5 took 70 minutes and was allowed up 100MB/s of idle IO
> bandwidth - RAID 1 seems to use < 200kB/s.
> 
> While I am very pleased with the hardware RAID 10 result (98261kB write,
> 97148kB read), I would prefer to use software RAID 10 for a few reasons,
> if the performance is similar.


The resync speed defaults to "nice and slow" IIRC... There should be 
some procfs tunable to increase the resync speed...

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-29 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-29 19:27 Life's too short ...(Raid 1 sync times) Richard Scobie
2004-02-29 19:40 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-02-29 20:47 ` Gordon Henderson
2004-02-29 21:29 ` Måns Rullgård

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