From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File system performance, hardware performance, ext3, 3ware RAID1, etc.
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:39:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213223949.GA13937@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402D235F.7030401@techsource.com>
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:19:59PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Assuming that the "buffered" speeds are being buffered by the OS, we'll
> ignore those. I am therefore observing that the writes to a single
> drive are 3 to 4 times faster than they are through the RAID controller,
> even with the 3ware write cache ON.
>
> Does that make any sense?
Well, it reminds me a disk I had problems with several years ago. It had
a few defects in the FAT area, which were relocated at the end. Performance
was terrible since the head had to move constantly. It took ages to install
Win31 on it, so it finally was returned to the vendor. But in your case it
seems a little bit different since you experience slow writes anywhere on
the medium. Would it be possible that your controller does something like
read-modify-write because of too big chunk size ?
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-12 23:32 File system performance, hardware performance, ext3, 3ware RAID1, etc Timothy Miller
2004-02-13 5:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-02-13 19:19 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-13 22:39 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2004-02-13 23:14 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-13 19:30 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-02-13 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-13 20:44 ` John Bradford
2004-02-13 22:45 ` Willy Tarreau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-13 12:23 Daniel Blueman
2004-02-13 14:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13 14:44 ` Daniel Blueman
2004-02-13 16:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-13 22:56 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-14 18:16 Walt H
2004-02-16 17:53 ` Timothy Miller
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