Thanks Jim. I will do some test and revert back later.

On 5月28日, 上午1时19分, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > I also done some test in EMC SAN.
> > If you only get the about 70MB/s for the SAN using dd.  I guess your
> > LV stripe size is only 4K.  During my test using some disk IO
> > performance tool, using 64K block size, I get the about 362MB/s
> > throughput for random write IO.
>
> > If 362MB/s, can I say the SAN configuration is ok?
>
> Not really. While your stripe size can influence things like READ,
> READNEXT (because it will trigger track read-ahead assuming you have
> told the file system to do this), you need to remember that the jBASE
> block size is 4K, not 64K and that unless your jBASE test program is
> performing only sequential reads, you will never get close to the
> performance of dd. In theory though a larger stripe will help some but
> not all programs. If the IO is totally random it might even slow things
> down as you may cause a read of a lot more data than you need.
>
> What happens to your tests if you use a local disk and not the SAN?> But 
> during the T24 COB testing, the throughput is not good as I get
> > using disk IO test tool even if I have increated the stripe size to
> > 64K.
>
> It almost certainly is not performing sequential IO, hence the closest
> you will get to the iostone tests is the performance indicators given by
> a large (not a few megs but a lot of gigs) random read/write mix.
> Something like 6:1 read:write.> Jim, please throw some light to my issue.
>
> > We are using Jbase5.0.15. as database, T24 R8.003, and AIX 5.3.
>
> You can try to improve the performance by:
>
> 1) Defragmenting the jBASE files by jrf'ing them, or if they are being
> resized too big (which seems to be the case lately), then writing a
> script to dd them to new copies then moving them back over the original,
> using a large block size with dd (to give a large chance that the
> filesystem will allocate contiguous disk).
> 2) Make sure the files are sized correctly of course;
> 3) Take in to account the fact that there is probably transaction
> journaling going on;
> 4) Ask for advice from TEMENOS and the SAN supplier on tuning the SAN
> for jBASE access patterns;
>
> First though, make your benchmarks with a local array, to give you a
> base point for comparison. Then make one change at a time and re-run the
> benchmarks.
>
> Jim

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