From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
To: Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Array read 3 time slower to read after data fully loaded
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:43:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE58FF9.3050202@ziu.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE4B9E6.1040802@geograph.co.za>
On 10-11-18 06:30, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anyone please explain this to me?
>
> For the last >30 hours I have been loading some 2.5TB of 200-400MB tiff
> images, from another PC on our internal network, onto this new array.
> Yesterday, during this load process, I copied 10 of these files (about
> 2.5GB) from the array onto the /home directory of the same system.
>
> It took 33 seconds, equating to some 75MB/s.
>
> This morning I came in to find that the load process had finished, so I
> deleted the 10 test files from /home, and redid the identical copy test
> (using bash-history, so: identical).
>
> It took 123 seconds, equating to some 20MB/s.
>
> Que? (as in Manuel from Faulty Towers :-) )
>
Is the situation with reading into /dev/null instead of /home the same ?
As this is reading issue, one thing that came to my mind:
- make sure the kernel is _not_ compiled with CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456.
It's afaik still experimental and can cause severe slowdowns
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-18 5:30 Array read 3 time slower to read after data fully loaded Zoltan Szecsei
2010-11-18 20:43 ` Michal Soltys [this message]
2010-11-18 20:53 ` David Lethe
2010-11-22 4:18 ` Neil Brown
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