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From: Mirko Benz <mirko.benz@web.de>
To: mingz@ele.uri.edu
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID 5 write performance advice
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:51:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430ECA18.10405@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124988876.5552.59.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hello,

We have created a RAID 0 for the same environment:
Personalities : [raid0] [raid5]
md0 : active raid0 sdi[7] sdh[6] sdg[5] sdf[4] sde[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] sdb[0]
      1250326528 blocks 64k chunks

*** dd TEST ***

time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1M
14967373824 bytes transferred in 32,060497 seconds (466847843 bytes/sec)

iostat 5 output:
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys %iowait   %idle
           0,00    0,00   89,60    9,50    0,90

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
hda               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
sda               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
sdb             455,31         0,00    116559,52          0     581632
sdc             455,51         0,00    116540,28          0     581536
sdd             450,10         0,00    116545,09          0     581560
sde             454,11         0,00    116559,52          0     581632
sdf             452,30         0,00    116559,52          0     581632
sdg             454,71         0,00    116553,11          0     581600
sdh             453,31         0,00    116533,87          0     581504
sdi             453,91         0,00    116556,31          0     581616
sdj               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
sdk               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
sdl               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
sdm               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
sdn               0,00         0,00         0,00          0          0
md0           116556,11         0,00    932448,90          0    4652920

Comments: 466 MB / 8 = 58,25 MB/s which is about the same as a dd to a 
single disk (58,5 MB/s). So the controller + I/O subsystem is not the 
bottleneck.

Regards,
Mirko


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24  8:24 RAID 5 write performance advice Mirko Benz
2005-08-24 12:46 ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-24 13:43   ` Mirko Benz
2005-08-24 13:49     ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-24 21:32     ` Neil Brown
2005-08-25 16:38       ` Mirko Benz
2005-08-25 16:54         ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-26  7:51           ` Mirko Benz [this message]
2005-08-26 14:26             ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-26 14:30             ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-26 15:29               ` Mirko Benz
2005-08-26 17:05                 ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-28 23:28                 ` Neil Brown
2005-09-01 19:44         ` djani22

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