Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-13 Thread Dan Williams
On 1/12/07, James Ralston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-12 at 09:39-08 dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, James Ralston wrote: I'm having a discussion with a coworker concerning the cost of md's raid5 implementation versus hardware raid5 implementations.

Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dan Williams wrote: On 1/12/07, James Ralston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-12 at 09:39-08 dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, James Ralston wrote: I'm having a discussion with a coworker concerning the cost of md's raid5 implementation versus hardware raid5

Re: FailSpare event?

2007-01-13 Thread Nix
On 12 Jan 2007, Ernst Herzberg told this: Then every about 60 sec 4 times event=SpareActive mddev=/dev/md3 I see exactly this on both my RAID-5 arrays, neither of which have any spare device --- nor have any active devices transitioned to spare (which is what that event is actually supposed

Re: FailSpare event?

2007-01-13 Thread Mike
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Neil Brown might have said: On Thursday January 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me what this means please? I just received this in an email from one of my servers: A FailSpare event had been detected on md device /dev/md2. It could be

Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-13 Thread Robin Bowes
Bill Davidsen wrote: There have been several recent threads on the list regarding software RAID-5 performance. The reference might be updated to reflect the poor write performance of RAID-5 until/unless significant tuning is done. Read that as tuning obscure parameters and throwing a lot of

Re: FailSpare event?

2007-01-13 Thread Nix
On 13 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: On 12 Jan 2007, Ernst Herzberg told this: Then every about 60 sec 4 times event=SpareActive mddev=/dev/md3 I see exactly this on both my RAID-5 arrays, neither of which have any spare device --- nor have any active devices transitioned to

Re: FailSpare event?

2007-01-13 Thread Nix
On 13 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following: On 12 Jan 2007, Ernst Herzberg told this: Then every about 60 sec 4 times event=SpareActive mddev=/dev/md3 I see exactly this on both my RAID-5 arrays, neither of which have any spare device --- nor have any active devices

Re: raid5 software vs hardware: parity calculations?

2007-01-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Robin Bowes wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: There have been several recent threads on the list regarding software RAID-5 performance. The reference might be updated to reflect the poor write performance of RAID-5 until/unless significant tuning is done. Read that as

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x.