Re: Poor Software RAID-0 performance with 2.6.14.2

2005-11-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul Clements wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: One of the advantages of mirroring is that if there is heavy read load when one drive is busy there is another copy of the data on the other drive(s). But doing 1MB reads on the mirrored device did not show that the kernel took advantage of this in

Re: Poor Software RAID-0 performance with 2.6.14.2

2005-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Lars Roland wrote: I have created a stripe across two 500Gb disks located on separate IDE channels using: mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -c32 -n2 -l0 /dev/hdb /dev/hdd the performance is awful on both kernel 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.14.2 (even with hdparm and blockdev tuning), both bonnie++ and hdparm (included

Re: Poor Software RAID-0 performance with 2.6.14.2

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Clements
Bill Davidsen wrote: One of the advantages of mirroring is that if there is heavy read load when one drive is busy there is another copy of the data on the other drive(s). But doing 1MB reads on the mirrored device did not show that the kernel took advantage of this in any way. In fact, it