Re: very strange (maybe) raid1 testing results

2007-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday May 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007, Richard Scobie wrote: Jon Nelson wrote: I am getting 70-80MB/s read rates as reported via dstat, and 60-80MB/s as reported by dd. What I

very strange (maybe) raid1 testing results

2007-05-30 Thread Jon Nelson
I assembled a 3-component raid1 out of 3 4GB partitions. After syncing, I ran the following script: for bs in 32 64 128 192 256 384 512 768 1024 ; do \ let COUNT=2048 * 1024 / ${bs}; \ echo -n ${bs}K bs - ; \ dd if=/dev/md1 of=/dev/null bs=${bs}k count=$COUNT iflag=direct 21 | grep 'copied'

Re: very strange (maybe) raid1 testing results

2007-05-30 Thread Richard Scobie
Jon Nelson wrote: I am getting 70-80MB/s read rates as reported via dstat, and 60-80MB/s as reported by dd. What I don't understand is why just one disk is being used here, instead of two or more. I tried different versions of metadata, and using a bitmap makes no difference. I created the

Re: very strange (maybe) raid1 testing results

2007-05-30 Thread Jon Nelson
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Richard Scobie wrote: Jon Nelson wrote: I am getting 70-80MB/s read rates as reported via dstat, and 60-80MB/s as reported by dd. What I don't understand is why just one disk is being used here, instead of two or more. I tried different versions of metadata, and