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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: "Mathias Burén" <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>, CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>,
	Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Performance question, RAID5
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:03:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D45C3FA.2040900@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=6UnGjDXdrM76-8_iW+1D6MC5fkGB-vhhYxUXu@mail.gmail.com>

Mathias Burén put forth on 1/30/2011 1:41 PM:

> Thanks. New results up for those interested:
> http://stuff.dyndns.org/logs/bonnie_results.html

Three things I notice:

1.  You're CPU bound across the board, for all the tests that matter anyway
2.  Because of this, your performance spread is less than 5% across the board
    meaning any optimizations are useless
3.  Is that a 7 Gigabyte chunk size?  That's totally unrealistic.  It should be
    less than 1 MB for almost all workloads.

According to those numbers, you can swap SATA controllers and PCIe bus slot
assignments all day long, but you'll gain nothing without a faster CPU.

Why are you using a 7 Gigabyte chunk size?  And if the other OP was correct
about the 768MB stripe cache, that's totally unrealistic as well.  And in real
world use, you don't want a high readahead setting.  It just wastes buffer cache
memory for no gain (except maybe in some synthetic benchmarks).

-- 
Stan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-30 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-29 22:48 Performance question, RAID5 Mathias Burén
2011-01-29 22:53 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-01-29 23:44   ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-29 23:57     ` Roman Mamedov
2011-01-30  0:15       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-30  0:33         ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30  0:27       ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30  1:52     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-30  1:54       ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30  5:56         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-30 12:12           ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30 19:44             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-30 19:46               ` Mathias Burén
2011-02-01 11:37             ` John Robinson
2011-02-01 13:53               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 14:02               ` Mathias Burén
2011-02-01 14:32                 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-29 23:26 ` CoolCold
2011-01-30  0:18   ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30  4:44     ` Roman Mamedov
2011-01-30 12:09       ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30 12:15         ` Roman Mamedov
2011-01-30 19:41           ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30 19:54             ` Roman Mamedov
2011-01-30 19:58               ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-30 20:03             ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-01-30 21:43               ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-31  3:39                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-31  3:54                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31  8:52                 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31  9:37                   ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-31 13:11                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 14:43                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 18:44                         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 20:42                       ` NeilBrown
2011-01-31 21:41                         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 21:43                           ` Roberto Spadim

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