Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-06 Thread Janek Kozicki
Bill Davidsen said: (by the date of Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:16:14 -0500) > Janek Kozicki wrote: > > Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:28:27 -0500 > > (EST)) > > writing on raid10 is supposed to be half the speed of reading. That's > > because it must write to both mirrors

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Rabbitson
Janek Kozicki wrote: writing on raid10 is supposed to be half the speed of reading. That's because it must write to both mirrors. I am not 100% certain about the following rules, but afaik any raid configuration has a theoretical[1] maximum read speed of the combined speed of all disks in th

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:28:27PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: Could you give some figures? I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, but input was clo

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:28:27PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > >Could you give some figures? > > I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed > (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, but input > was closer to RAID5 speeds/did not seem affe

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Janek Kozicki
Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:28:27 -0500 (EST)) > I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed > (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, writing on raid10 is supposed to be half the speed of reading. That's because it

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:54:27AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: K

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:54:27AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > >>On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: > >>>Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) All the raid10's will have double

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: > > Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 > > +0100) > > > > All the raid10's will have double time for writing, and raid5 and rai

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Janek Kozicki wrote: Hello, Yes, I know that some levels give faster reading and slower writing, etc. I want to talk here about a typical workstation usage: compiling stuff (like kernel), editing openoffice docs, browsing web, reading email (email: I have a webdir format, and in boost mailing l

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-31 Thread Janek Kozicki
Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:55:07 +0100) > Given that you want maximum thruput for both reading and writing, I > think there is only one way to go, that is raid0. > > All the raid10's will have double time for writing, and raid5 and raid6 > will also have doub

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) > > > Teoretically, raid0 and raid10,f2 should be the same for reading, given the > > same size of the md partition, etc. For writing, raid10,f2 should be

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Janek Kozicki
Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) > Teoretically, raid0 and raid10,f2 should be the same for reading, given the > same size of the md partition, etc. For writing, raid10,f2 should be half the > speed of > raid0. This should go both for sequential and ra

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:21:33PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: > Hello, > > Yes, I know that some levels give faster reading and slower writing, etc. > > I want to talk here about a typical workstation usage: compiling > stuff (like kernel), editing openoffice docs, browsing web, reading > email

which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Janek Kozicki
Hello, Yes, I know that some levels give faster reading and slower writing, etc. I want to talk here about a typical workstation usage: compiling stuff (like kernel), editing openoffice docs, browsing web, reading email (email: I have a webdir format, and in boost mailing list directory I have 14