Re: RAID 5 Grow

2007-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Scobie wrote: I will soon be adding another same sized drive to an existing 3 drive RAID 5 array. The machine is running Fedora Core 6 with kernel 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 and mdadm 2.5.4, both of which are the latest available Fedora packages. Is anyone aware of any obvious bugs in either

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Piszcz wrote: I have found a 16MB stripe_cache_size results in optimal performance after testing many many values :) We have discussed this before, my experience has been that after 8 x stripe size the performance gains hit diminishing returns, particularly for typical write instead

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: I have found a 16MB stripe_cache_size results in optimal performance after testing many many values :) We have discussed this before, my experience has been that after 8 x stripe size the performance gains hit diminishing

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: I have found a 16MB stripe_cache_size results in optimal performance after testing many many values :) We have discussed this before, my experience has been that after 8 x stripe

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance [BUG with =64kb]

2007-06-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: I have found a 16MB stripe_cache_size results in optimal performance after testing many many values :) We have discussed this before,

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance [BUG with =64kb]

2007-06-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: I have found a 16MB stripe_cache_size results in optimal performance after testing many

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Nelson
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Raz wrote: What is your raid configuration ? Please note that the stripe_cache_size is acting as a bottle neck in some cases. Well, that's kind of the point of my email. I'll try to restate things, as my question appears to

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Dan Williams
7. And now, the question: the best absolute 'write' performance comes with a stripe_cache_size value of 4096 (for my setup). However, any value of stripe_cache_size above 384 really, really hurts 'check' (and rebuild, one can assume) performance. Why? Question: After performance goes bad does

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Raz wrote: What is your raid configuration ? Please note that the stripe_cache_size is acting as a bottle neck in some cases. Well, that's kind of the point of my email. I'll try to

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Nelson
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Dan Williams wrote: 7. And now, the question: the best absolute 'write' performance comes with a stripe_cache_size value of 4096 (for my setup). However, any value of stripe_cache_size above 384 really, really hurts 'check' (and rebuild, one can assume) performance.