Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-17 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 16 Apr 2009 at 13:59, jnantel wrote: FINAL RESULTS * First of all I'd thank Mike Christie for all his help. Mike I'll tapping your brain again for some read performance help. This for the benefit of anyone using the Dell Equallogic PS5000XV PS5000E with SLES10 SP2 / Redhat

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-17 Thread jnantel
Accross my SAN, tuned system: ping -I eth2 -s 9000 10.1.253.48 PING 10.1.253.48 (10.1.253.48) from 10.1.253.48 eth2: 9000(9028) bytes of data. 9008 bytes from 10.1.253.48: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.074 ms 9008 bytes from 10.1.253.48: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.013 ms 9008 bytes from 10.1.253.48:

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-16 Thread jnantel
FINAL RESULTS * First of all I'd thank Mike Christie for all his help. Mike I'll tapping your brain again for some read performance help. This for the benefit of anyone using the Dell Equallogic PS5000XV PS5000E with SLES10 SP2 / Redhat 5.3 / Centos 5.3 / Oracle Linux + Multipath ( MPIO

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-15 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I think linux is just not so good with smaller IO sizes like 4K. I do not see good performance with Fibre Channel or iscsi. Most people run a filesystem on top of a block device imported via open-iscsi. It is well

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I think linux is just not so good with smaller IO sizes like 4K. I do not see good performance with Fibre Channel or iscsi. Can you elaborate on the above ? I have already measured a throughput of more than 60 MB/s

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread jnantel
Well I've got some disconcerting news on this issue. No changes at any level alter the 34/meg throughput I get. I flushed multipath, blew away /var/lib/iscsi just in case. I also verified in /var/lib/iscsi the options got set. RHEL53 took my renice no problem. Some observations: Single

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Christie
Bart Van Assche wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I think linux is just not so good with smaller IO sizes like 4K. I do not see good performance with Fibre Channel or iscsi. Can you elaborate on the above ? I have already measured a

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Christie
jnantel wrote: Well I've got some disconcerting news on this issue. No changes at any level alter the 34/meg throughput I get. I flushed multipath, blew away /var/lib/iscsi just in case. I also verified in /var/lib/iscsi the options got set. RHEL53 took my renice no problem. What were

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-14 Thread jnantel
iometer 32k write 0 read 0 randoms Equallogic is using this in their lab iozone with -I option and various settings dd + iostat On Apr 14, 1:57 pm, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: Bart Van Assche wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mike Christie micha...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:

Re: Multipath + iscsi + SLES10 SP2 / REDHAT 5.3 / Oracle Linux 5 update 3

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Christie
jnantel wrote: I am having a major issue with multipath + iscsi write performance with anything random or any sequential write with data sizes smaller than 4meg (128k 64k 32k 16k 8k). With 32k block size, I am able to get a maximum throughput of 33meg/s write. My performance gets cut