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Hi

>Looks like my RAID5 arrays have crap performance - esp. the master array.

OK here are the stats from my RAID5 setup with 4 X Seagate 160Gb Drives (all masters):
Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
gryffindor       1G 23157  83 43898  24 14863   8 17742  58 32670  10 369.4   2
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1598  98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  1640  97 +++++ +++  4086  97
 
So I see the traditional high CPU on writes but reads are fast with little overhead. Your figures do look worse than mine in places (mostly in the small file tests, although you seem to be using much less CPU time).
 
I'm not worried about the high write times as the volumes I have on the array are mainly read. I host my music, digital picture and movie files there.
 
For myth buffers and my db I have an XFS filesystem on a standalone disk, and my OS is on a RAID 1 mirror on another 2 disks.
 
Just curious if you got any output in dmesg or /var/log/messages whilst running. I didn't see anything but I'm guessing that if there were bus timing errors that'd be where they'd be. Did you (dare) try running this on the master and slave arrays at the same time ? I'm guessing it would grind to a halt.
 
Regards
 
Paul
 
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