The dd command I am running is time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=/mnt/
iscsi/10gfile.txt count=10240
My fs is xfs (mkfs.xfs -d agcount=8 -l internal,size=128m -n size=8k -
i size=2048 /dev/sdb1 -f) those are the parameters used to format the
drive.

Here are the top values: Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  6.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 25.0%id,
67.2%wa,  0.1%hi,  1.7%si,  0.0%st

I have not tried nullio LUN from target. I'm not sure how to go about
it actually...

Thanks for your help !

On Nov 25, 5:04 am, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:07:12AM -0800, Chris K. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >     I'm writing in regards to the performance with open-iscsi on a
> > 10gbe network. On your website you posted performance results
> > indicating you reached read and write speeds of 450 MegaBytes per
> > second.
>
> > In our environment we use Myricom dual channel 10gbe network cards on
> > a gentoo linux system connected via fiber to a 10gbe interfaced SAN
> > with a raid 0 volume mounted with 4 15000rpm SAS drives.
> > Unfortunately, the maximum speed we are acheiving is 94 MB/s. We do
> > know that the network interfaces can stream data at 822MB/s (results
> > obtained with netperf). we know that local read performance on the
> > disks is 480MB/s. When using netcat or direct tcp/ip connection we get
> > speeds in this range, however when we connect a volume via the iscsi
> > protocol using the open-iscsi initiator we drop to 94MB/s(best result.
> > Obtained with bonnie++ and dd).
>
> What block size are you using with dd?
> Try: dd if=/dev/foo of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=32768
>
> How's the CPU usage on both the target and the initiator when you run
> that? Is there iowait?
>
> Did you try with nullio LUN from the target?
>
> -- Pasi

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