Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Raz
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Re: /proc/mdstat docs (was Re: Few questions)

2007-12-08 Thread Raz
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Re: mounting raid5 with different unit values

2007-12-08 Thread Raz
:14AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: man mount :) Ah of course. But those will be more restrictive that what you can specify when you make the file-system (because mkfs.xfs can aligned the AGs to suit). -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body

Re: Superblocks

2007-10-27 Thread Raz
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Re: XFS on x86_64 Linux Question

2007-04-28 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: raid5 write performance

2007-04-19 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 4/16/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/07, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday March 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. I am going to work on this with other configurations, such as raid5's with more disks and raid50. I will be happy to hear your

Re: raid5 write performance

2007-04-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 4/2/07, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see bellow. On 8/28/06, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well ... me again Following your advice I added

Re: raid5 write performance

2007-03-31 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 3/31/07, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: Please see bellow. On 8/28/06, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well ... me again Following your advice I added a deadline for every WRITE stripe head

Re: raid5 write performance

2007-03-30 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
is why deadline must be so long as 10 ms? the less deadline the more reads I am getting. Many thanks Raz #include iostream #include stdio.h #include string #include stddef.h #include sys/time.h #include stdlib.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h #include fcntl.h #include unistd.h #include

Re: slow 'check'

2007-02-11 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: slow 'check'

2007-02-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
capabilty. meaning : see if dd'in for each disk in the system seperately reduces the total throughput. On 1/18/07, Sevrin Robstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to increase the cache size - I can't measure any difference. Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: did u increase the stripe

Re: Odd (slow) RAID performance

2006-12-12 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
with respect to the size of stripe. this way you will be able to eiliminate the undesired reads. By accessing it correctly I have managed reach a write throughout with respect to the number of disks in the raid. -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body

Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

2006-08-26 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: raid5 write performance

2006-08-13 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
be a reduction in performance if deadline line it too long (say 100 ms). raz On 7/3/06, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday July 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil hello. I have been looking at the raid5 code trying to understand why writes performance is so poor. raid5 write performance

raid5.h documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Neil hello. you say raid5.h: ... * Whenever the delayed queue is empty and the device is not plugged, we * move any strips from delayed to handle and clear the DELAYED flag and set PREREAD_ACTIVE. ... i do not understand how can one move from delayed if delayed is empty . thank you -- Raz

raid5 write performance

2006-07-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
can i increase the write throughout ? Thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

read perfomance patchset

2006-06-19 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
*/ + bi-bi_hw_segments = 0; /* count of processed stripes */ + } + + return bi; +} -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

raid 5 read performance

2006-06-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
kernel do you want me to use ? i am using poor 2.6.15. I thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

improving raid 5 performance

2006-05-23 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
= biovec-bv_len bio_sectors == 0) return biovec-bv_len; else return max; } thank you Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

raid 5 read performance

2006-05-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
to the work for me // return 1; } ... } it increased the performance to 440 MB/s. Question : What is the cost of not walking trough the raid5 code in the case of READ ? if i add and error handling code will it be suffice ? thank you -- Raz

Re: Cheap Clustered FS

2006-04-13 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: Cheap Clustered FS

2006-04-13 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
is the specific slab that is used for the caching? Thanks, Jon On 4/13/06, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: may be lustre On 4/13/06, Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 05:24:34PM -0400, Jon Miller wrote: I have two machines which have redundant paths

How is an IO size are determnied ?

2006-04-03 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
/2 MB ? Could it be the slab cache ? ( biovec256) Thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: question : raid bio sector size

2006-03-29 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
in the elevator, but still why so small ? thank you raz. On 3/27/06, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday March 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have playing with raid5 and i noticed that the arriving bios sizes are 1 sector. why is that and where is it set ? bios arriving from

Re: question : raid bio sector size

2006-03-29 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
blockdev --getbsz /dev/md1 say? Do you have a filesystem mounted on /dev/md1? If so, what sort of filesystem. NeilBrown -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

question : raid bio sector size

2006-03-27 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
i have playing with raid5 and i noticed that the arriving bios sizes are 1 sector. why is that and where is it set ? thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: raid5 performance question

2006-03-07 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
to the disk ? 2. Does direct IO passes this cache ? 3. How can a dd of 1 MB over 1MB chunck size acheive this high throughputs of 4 disks even if does not get the stripe cache benifits ? thank you raz. On 3/7/06, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday March 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED

raid5 performance question

2006-03-06 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
a single disk , but by looking at iostat i can see that all disks are active but with low throughput. Any idea ? Thank you. -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: raid5 performance question

2006-03-06 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
it reads raw. no filesystem whatsover. On 3/6/06, Gordon Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: Neil Hello . I have a performance question. I am using raid5 stripe size 1024K over 4 disks. I am benchmarking it with an asynchronous tester

Re: NCQ general question

2006-03-04 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: NCQ general question

2006-03-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Thank you Mr Garzik. Is there a list of all drivers and there features they give ? Raz. On 3/2/06, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: (don't top post) On Thu, Mar 02 2006, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: i can see the NCQ realy bother people. i am using a promise

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
, JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JaniD++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:49 PM Subject: Re: raid5 read performance 1. do you want

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-04 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
parity checks on reads, afaik. -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-04 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
- From: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:14 AM Subject: Re: raid5 read performance I guess i was not clear enough. i am using raid5 over 3 maxtor disks. the chunk

raid5 read performance

2006-01-03 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
I am checking raid5 performance. I am using asynchronous ios with buffer size as the stripe size. In this case i am using a stripe size of 1M with 2+1 disks. Unlike raid0 , raid5 drops the performance by 50% . Why ? Is it because it does parity checkings ? thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from

Re: raid 0 read performance

2005-12-29 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
what wrt stands for ? On 12/29/05, Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 10:10]: I have tested the overhead of linux raid0. I used two scsi atlas maxtor disks ( 147 MB) and combined them to single raid0 volume. The raid is striped

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-11-26 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
-disk 2 device /dev/md4 raid-disk 3 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:50 AM To: Linux RAID Mailing List Subject: comparing FreeBSD to linux I have evaluated which is better in terms cpu load when dealing with raid. FreeBSD vinum's or linux raid. When i issued a huge

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
What sort of a test is it ? what filesystem ? I am reading concurrently 50 files . Are you reading one file , several files ? On 11/21/05, Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Well , i have tested the disk with a new tester i have written. it seems that the ata driver causes the high cpu and not raid. On 11/21/05, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What sort of a test is it ? what filesystem ? I am reading concurrently 50 files . Are you reading one file

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 On 11/21/05, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:15:11AM -0800, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: Well , i have tested the disk with a new

Re: RAID5 question.

2005-08-04 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
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Re: RAID5 question.

2005-08-04 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
take a look at /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max . it is kilobytes if i recall correctly. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 17:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for you, and Raz! The raw devices readahead I already set with the hdparm, and /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb, but the md

Re: RAID5 question.

2005-08-04 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
how is the disks performance ? is it OK ? On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is there, I know it. But its only for resync or not? :-) - Original Message - From: Raz Ben Jehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Greaves [EMAIL

Re: 3ware raid question

2005-08-03 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
I know that some raid management information is save on the disks. But I am using 250 GB disks at minimum dd'ing this amount would be too long. Has know the exact position of where to dd ? On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:27 -0700, Jason Leach wrote: Raz: The 3ware (at least my 9500S-8) keeps

Re: 3ware raid question

2005-08-03 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
unlock the drive ? On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 10:26 -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: i have encountered a weired feature of 3ware raid. When i try to put inside an existing raid a disk which belonged to a different 3ware raid if fail. Any idea

3ware raid question

2005-08-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
i have encountered a weired feature of 3ware raid. When i try to put inside an existing raid a disk which belonged to a different 3ware raid if fail. Any idea anyone ? -- Raz Long Live the Penguin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message