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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
To: Matthieu Patou <mat@matws.net>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Random IO with md raid
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:20:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1A6C28.20800@shiftmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B198DBA.5000906@matws.net>

Matthieu Patou wrote:
> * 1 raid 1 volume of 2 1TB hard drive
Are these drives also on the 3ware? Are they exported as jbod?
> * 2 single volume of 1 TB hard drive each
> ...
> Does anyone has an any idea ?

Try anticipatory, deadline and noop schedulers on disks (not CFQ)
Try setting readahead to exactly 4K, or set it to lowest possible value 
(I'm not sure what is best), since this is random access...
Increase stripe_cache_size as high as you can, p
Let us/me know the results afterwards...
Thank you
Asdo


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-05 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-04 22:31 Random IO with md raid Matthieu Patou
2009-12-05 14:20 ` Asdo [this message]
2009-12-07 22:59   ` Matthieu Patou
2009-12-09 16:36     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-12-14  9:06       ` Matthieu Patou
2009-12-14 10:13         ` Michael Evans
2009-12-16 11:32           ` Goswin von Brederlow

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