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

Jean Gobin
2011-02-05T19:42:47Z

Hi Justin,

When you run the copy over the network, could you issue a "vmstat 1" on
both machines?

Thanks,
J.

On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 14:35 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two identical X8DTH-6's, each with 5520s XEONS..
>
> === RAID
> Two 3ware RAID-0's (testing only) with 24 drives (2TB WD).
> Read: 1.2Gbyte/sec
> Write: 1.2Gbyte/sec
>
> === NETWORK
> When I run iperf between the two 10GbE interfaces, I get 1.1-1.2Gbyte/sec.
> MTU=9000 on both hosts.
>
> == COPY OVER NETWORK
> When I copy using cp/NFS, tar/nc, etc.. I only see an average of about
> 250MiB/s, I also have two desktop boards (8GB ram/ea) from which I get
> 500-550MiB/s from (the raid is slower on the desktop boards, it gets what
> the RAID can read it), how come these server boards cannot push > 1Gbyte/sec
> sustained?
>
> I know on this board:
> CPU1 => SLOT 1,2,3
> CPU2 => SLOT 4,5,6,7
>
> The RAID card is plugged into 2 (CPU1)
> The 10GbE card is plugged into 6 (CPU2)
>
> Should both cards be plugged into the same set of slots controlled by the
> same CPU?
>
> Has anyone experienced anything like this before, e.g., > 1Gbyte/sec read
> & write for network and 3ware RAID but when using them in combination, it
> is slow.
>
> OS = CentOS 5.5 x86_64
> Filesystem = XFS
> NIC = 10GbE AT2 Server Adapter
>
> No single component is < 1Gbyte/sec but when data is transferred from
> hostA to hostB, then it degrades to 250MiB/s.
>
> Justin.
>
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