Re: Supermicro X8DTH-6: Only ~250MiB/s from RAID<->RAID over 10GbE?

Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-05T23:54:54Z

Justin Piszcz put forth on 2/5/2011 4:56 PM:

> Not sure how to copy/paste from an IPMI window, but I made my own
> kernel for 2.6.37 in CentOS 5.5 (a pain) and now it is doing ~482-500MiB/s
> sustained with a single copy (netcat from A->B). Poor performance with the
> default 2.6.18 kernel. Seems to also slow down over time, down to 434MiB/s now,
> but it started very quick and it remains between 420-500MiB/s sustained. Now
> 435-445MiB/s..

I forgot you mentioned CentOS. Their kernel and apps are always very old.
2.6.18 was release in Sept 2006 IIRC--4+ years ago. It was the "pirate themed"
release.

With 2.6.37 what do you get with 4 concurrent nfs copy ops? If the aggregate
nfs throughput doesn't increase, you need to tweak your nfs server (and possibly
client). With that hardware and a recent kernel you should be able to fill that
10 GbE pipe, or come really close.

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Stan