Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-15 Thread Matthew Roberts
Marco Peereboom wrote: First let me defend softraid. The rebuild code is designed to offer maximum data protection. With this is mind certain assumptions were made. Sorry... I haven't stated that I think that data protection is king. Any performance increase that could compromise the disk co

Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
First let me defend softraid. The rebuild code is designed to offer maximum data protection. With this is mind certain assumptions were made. That said, I am not opposed to a patch to improve performance but with all things softraid corner-cases are many and complicated. A valid patch will keep

Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-14 Thread Alexander Hall
Matthew Roberts wrote: > I wrote: >> I have been experimenting with a softraid mirror, using two cheap SATA >> disks. >> In general the performance is very good - except when rebuilding. A >> quick >> set of sums suggests that the problem is seek time. >> >> The disks are 7200rpm, therefore one ca

Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-14 Thread Matthew Roberts
I wrote: I have been experimenting with a softraid mirror, using two cheap SATA disks. In general the performance is very good - except when rebuilding. A quick set of sums suggests that the problem is seek time. The disks are 7200rpm, therefore one can hope for 120 seeks per second. "systat io

Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-14 Thread Alexander Hall
Matthew Roberts wrote: > I have been experimenting with a softraid mirror, using two cheap SATA > disks. > In general the performance is very good - except when rebuilding. A quick > set of sums suggests that the problem is seek time. > > The disks are 7200rpm, therefore one can hope for 120 seek

softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-13 Thread Matthew Roberts
I have been experimenting with a softraid mirror, using two cheap SATA disks. In general the performance is very good - except when rebuilding. A quick set of sums suggests that the problem is seek time. The disks are 7200rpm, therefore one can hope for 120 seeks per second. "systat iostat" (whi