Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be done, some balance between the read time, seek time, and read size could be done. Using

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-09 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:53:26AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: Using 2 threads made no difference either. It was not until I did 3 simultaneous copies that I saw 110-130MB/s through vmstat 1, until then, it only used one drive, even with two cp's, how come it needs to be three or more?

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-05 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be done, some balance between the read time, seek time, and read size could be done. Using more than one drive only makes sense when the read transfer time is significantly

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be done, some balance between the read time, seek time, and read size could be done. Using more than one drive only makes sense when

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Iustin Pop wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be done, some balance between the read time, seek time, and read size could be done. Using more than one drive only makes sense when the read transfer

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-05 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:11:35AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be done, some balance between the read time, seek time, and read

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:11:35AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be done, some balance between

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:11:35AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Iustin Pop wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: You are correct, but I think if an optimization were to be

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Al Boldi wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Al Boldi wrote: The problem is that raid1 one doesn't do striped reads, but rather uses read-balancing per proc. Try your test with parallel reads; it should be faster. : : It would be nice if reads larger than some size were considered

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-03 Thread Al Boldi
Bill Davidsen wrote: Al Boldi wrote: The problem is that raid1 one doesn't do striped reads, but rather uses read-balancing per proc. Try your test with parallel reads; it should be faster. : : It would be nice if reads larger than some size were considered as candidates for multiple

raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello list, normally, I'd think that combining drives into a raid1 array would give me at least a little improvement in read speed. In my setup however, this does not seem to be the case. 14:16 opteron:/var/log # hdparm -t /dev/sda Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds =

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-01 Thread Al Boldi
Jan Engelhardt wrote: normally, I'd think that combining drives into a raid1 array would give me at least a little improvement in read speed. In my setup however, this does not seem to be the case. 14:16 opteron:/var/log # hdparm -t /dev/sda Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01

Re: raid1 does not seem faster

2007-04-01 Thread Henrik Holst
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:19 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hello list, normally, I'd think that combining drives into a raid1 array would give me at least a little improvement in read speed. In my setup however, this does not seem to be the case. 14:16 opteron:/var/log # hdparm -t