Re: Trying to understand iostat output

2005-12-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:33:00PM +0100, Markus Wernig wrote: Joachim Schipper wrote: There was a lengthy thread about ccd mirroring here. Search the archives, and check whether it's worth the risk of ccd 'eating your data' first. (If not, go with RAID-1.) Hi Yes, I followed the

Re: Trying to understand iostat output

2005-12-14 Thread Markus Wernig
Joachim Schipper wrote: There was a lengthy thread about ccd mirroring here. Search the archives, and check whether it's worth the risk of ccd 'eating your data' first. (If not, go with RAID-1.) Hi Yes, I followed the thread, but to my understanding it was not conclusive that ccd would be

Trying to understand iostat output

2005-12-13 Thread Markus Wernig
Hi all! I have a system (obsd3.8/sparc64) with 2 identical scsi drives (4 partitions + 1 swap each). The largest partition (10G) is mirrored over the 2 drives as a ccd with interleave factor 16. When running iostat during an I/O stress test (writing many small files to the ccd in 10 parallel

Re: Trying to understand iostat output

2005-12-13 Thread kami petersen
Markus Wernig skrev: I have a system (obsd3.8/sparc64) with 2 identical scsi drives (4 partitions + 1 swap each). The largest partition (10G) is mirrored over the 2 drives as a ccd with interleave factor 16. And 1.2M/s is rather less that what I'd have expected, is this figure really the