Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone has an idea what's going wrong here? (Apart from me doing bullsh*t benchmarking :-) .) Just out of curiosity, try again with prime stripe sizes (31, 61, 127, 257, 509) or at least odd ones (31, 63, 127, 255, 511). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to help. I additionally added options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO to the kernel, and it has raised write performance in the single-disk case (although I'm not happy with that one either; I expected a

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to help. I additionally added options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO to the kernel, and it has raised write performance in the single-disk case (although

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Does the data sheet for your disk indicate that it can in fact write much faster than that? Well, the HP/Compaq webpages are full of marketing speech wrt that, but since these disks are U320 disks, they

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 14:08:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone has an idea what's going wrong here? (Apart from me doing bullsh*t benchmarking :-) .) Just out of curiosity, try again with prime stripe sizes (31, 61, 127, 257, 509) or at

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 16:30:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Anti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try benchmarking ccd as well to see how it compares? and try some big stripe sizes (4093, 8191, 12281)? I believe Greg showed in his USENIX paper on Vinum that large stripe sizes aren't

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 18:10:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to help. I additionally added options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO to the kernel, and it has raised write performance in the

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeremy McMillan
* skip the following three paragraphs if you're not interested in the politics * This is funny. Not funny "ha ha", but I think it's actually indicative of the high quality of free software: we have to argue whether pre-release features/functionality should be used in critical production

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:09 PM 9/15/99 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: Perhaps we're seeing this differently, but "sworn off vinum" says to me "never using it again", and that's the point I was trying to make. People try something that's still under development, get bitten, and then claim forever after that the

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:11 PM -0500 1999/9/15, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: Well Greg considers it a "release" anyway and no longer alpha. Surely it may be "under development" still, but then isn't -stable? My apologies. I was under the impression that it was still considered alpha code, but then I

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 03:45 AM 9/16/99 +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: Also, keep in mind that vinum does very little in the way of sanity checking. It's very happy to trash your data if you tell it to do something even a little bit unusual. Like anything it will only do what you tell it, so in a way I'm of

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Chad R. Larson
As I recall, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: This is in line with what I would expect for RAID 0 and 1. CPU usage just makes the I/O performance measurements more compelling. CPU will also be more interesting when it comes to measuring the RAID 5 performance later. And you'd

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Robinson
"Jeffrey J. Mountin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like anything it will only do what you tell it, so in a way I'm of agreement. My biggest objection to vinum is that it will do what you tell it to, and then complain afterwards, rather than complain about it at the time you try to do it. Two good

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Robinson
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, keep in mind that vinum does very little in the way of sanity checking. It's very happy to trash your data if you tell it to do something even a little bit unusual. After getting seriously burned (fortunately, during initial system configuration),

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:30 AM 9/16/99 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: My apologies. I was under the impression that it was still considered alpha code, but then I guess if it was it probably wouldn't have migrated to the -STABLE tree, now would it? None needed, but we're not the only ones that assumed that