Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Willy Tarreau wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>Sunil Naidu wrote:
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>>>On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
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>>>>It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help
>>>>you do something else during that time, or also give more responsiveness
>>>>to Ctrl-C. It is possible that you have fast and slow RAM, or that your
>>>>video card uses shared memory which slows down some parts of memory
>>>>which are not used anymore with those parameters.
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>>>I did test some SATA drives, am getting these value for 2.6.20-rc5:-
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>>>[sukhoi@Typhoon ~]$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024
>>>1024+0 records in
>>>1024+0 records out
>>>1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 21.0962 seconds, 50.9 MB/s
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>>>What can you suggest here w.r.t my RAM & disk?
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>>>>Willy
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>~Akula2
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>>Hi,
>>whitebook vbi s96f core 2 duo t5600 2gb hitachi ATA      HTS721060G9AT00 
>>using libata
>>time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024
>>1024+0 records in
>>1024+0 records out
>>1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.0092 seconds, 107 MB/s
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>>real    0m10.196s
>>user    0m0.004s
>>sys     0m3.440s
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>You have too much RAM, it's possible that writes did not complete before
>the end of your measurement. Try this instead :
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>$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024 | sync
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>Willy
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Yeah that make a difference:
 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024 | sync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.86719 seconds, 121 MB/s

real    0m43.601s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m3.912s


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