Re: FailSpare event?

2007-01-12 Thread Ernst Herzberg
On Thursday 11 January 2007 23:23, Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday January 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me what this means please? I just received this in an email from one of my servers: Same problem here, on different machines. But only with mdadm 2.6, with mdadm

Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, James Ralston wrote: I'm having a discussion with a coworker concerning the cost of md's raid5 implementation versus hardware raid5 implementations. Specifically, he states: The performance [of raid5 in hardware] is so much better with the write-back caching on the

Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-12 Thread James Ralston
On 2007-01-12 at 09:39-08 dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, James Ralston wrote: I'm having a discussion with a coworker concerning the cost of md's raid5 implementation versus hardware raid5 implementations. Specifically, he states: The performance [of

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Michael Tokarev
Justin Piszcz wrote: Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1. Without the tweaks and with the tweaks: # Stripe tests: echo 8192 /sys/block/md3/md/stripe_cache_size # DD

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1. Without the tweaks and with the tweaks: # Stripe tests:

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
RAID 5 TWEAKED: 1:06.41 elapsed @ 60% CPU This should be 1:14 not 1:06(was with a similarly sized file but not the same) the 1:14 is the same file as used with the other benchmarks. and to get that I used 256mb read-ahead and 16384 stripe size ++ 128 max_sectors_kb (same size as my sw raid5

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Al Boldi
Justin Piszcz wrote: RAID 5 TWEAKED: 1:06.41 elapsed @ 60% CPU This should be 1:14 not 1:06(was with a similarly sized file but not the same) the 1:14 is the same file as used with the other benchmarks. and to get that I used 256mb read-ahead and 16384 stripe size ++ 128 max_sectors_kb

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: RAID 5 TWEAKED: 1:06.41 elapsed @ 60% CPU This should be 1:14 not 1:06(was with a similarly sized file but not the same) the 1:14 is the same file as used with the other benchmarks. and to get that I used 256mb read-ahead and

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ benchmarks of [only] the max_sector_kb tests as well, it improved the times from 8min/bonnie run - 7min

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Piszcz wrote: # echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # dd if=/dev/md3 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 399.352 seconds, 26.9 MB/s # for i in sde sdg sdi sdk; do echo 192 /sys/block/$i/queue/max_sectors_kb; echo Set

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Al Boldi
Justin Piszcz wrote: Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ benchmarks of [only] the max_sector_kb tests as well, it improved the times from

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ benchmarks of [only] the max_sector_kb

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Al Boldi
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ benchmarks of