Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-11-28 Thread Adrian Head
Just a quick update on where I got to regarding this. Spent quite a few days nights playing and was finally able to get the following results (from 140 tests of bonnie++): Block Write: Min 93.35 MB/s Avg 98.57 MB/s Max 103.22 MB/s Block Read: Min

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-11-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:16:05PM -0800, Heady wrote: Folks, I've been struggling with a similar problem for a while now. My write speeds are around 110M/s whereas, even following A. Eijkhoudt's advice I've only been able to get 34M/s reads. * The initiator is Open-iSCSI running on

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-11-22 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Heady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The target is IET running on a Xen dom0 running Gentoo Linux with [ ... ] Maybe not the advice you are looking for, but did you already have a look at the SCST iSCSI target implementation ? It's faster than IET and better

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-11-22 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Tracy Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:44:09AM +0100, Bart Van Assche spake thusly: Maybe not the advice you are looking for, but did you already have a look at the SCST iSCSI target implementation ? It's faster than IET and better

Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-11-21 Thread Heady
tried this before? Thanks for your time. Adrian Head. -- From: A. Eijkhoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 13, 1:42 am Subject: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near- perfect! To: open-iscsi Thank you all very much! The suggested combinations of network configuration

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-12 Thread A. Eijkhoudt
On Sep 12, 8:08 am, Bart Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you aware that not only the readahead settings on the initiator side count, but also on the target side ? I would assume there are, but I don't see options to change that under Windows Storage Server. Wouldn't the write speed

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
When we copy a file from the local disk array to the iSCSI target, the write performance is amazing: we max out the gigabit link immediately (100MB/sec writes easily). When we copy a file from the iSCSI target to the local disk array however, performance is absolutely *dreadful*: Can you try

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-12 Thread A. Eijkhoudt
On Sep 12, 3:49 pm, Konrad Rzeszutek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you try to copy the file from the iSCSI target to /dev/null? Yes, no difference. It's still going at a decidedly unimpressive 1.5MB/ sec. Is the 'local disk array' a software RAID ? No, it's a hardware RAID5 setup over 12

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-12 Thread D.A.
On Sep 12, 1:29 am, A. Eijkhoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello and thanks in advance for reading, We've been having serious read performance issues with Open-iSCSI. I am having a similar problem, with good write performance and dreadful read performance, but with bursts of good speed. I

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-12 Thread Ben Lake
More 2c, for everyone. I had unacceptable speeds in general when I first started using open-iscsi, mainly manifested when reading from my IET target (both Ubuntu BTW). One issue was as another user mentioned, I was reading from a fast target (2x3Ghz Xeons) and writing to a slower (1x2.4Ghz P4)

Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-11 Thread A. Eijkhoudt
Hello and thanks in advance for reading, We've been having serious read performance issues with Open-iSCSI. I'll list the specs of our setup first: The SAN: - Dual-Core Xeon with 2GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 - 5TB storage, sliced into two 1.5TB and one 2.0TB