Re: Promise vtrak m500i Performance Issues

2008-01-18 Thread benjamin9999
On Jan 18, 9:36 am, deeztech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I set the blockdev to 4096, 8192, 16384 and even 32768 for giggles. > You recommendation did help quite a bit. We're up in the 60 MB/sec next guess is you have pci-33mhz nics or some other bottleneck. if you really want to do fast trans

Re: Promise vtrak m500i Performance Issues

2008-01-18 Thread deeztech
I set the blockdev to 4096, 8192, 16384 and even 32768 for giggles. You recommendation did help quite a bit. We're up in the 60 MB/sec range which it practically doubled. Thank you very much. Now, just for clarification, you said that you used to use the vtrak m500i target and you found it slow? I

Re: Promise vtrak m500i Performance Issues

2008-01-17 Thread benjamin9999
On Jan 17, 11:53 am, deeztech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > throughput of about 30 MB/sec. This does not seem right to me. I'm > expecting abou 65 MB/sec. Is that realistic? We have tried through the i (used to) use this target... it just isn't very fast at all. linear, single threaded 4k iop

Promise vtrak m500i Performance Issues

2008-01-17 Thread deeztech
Hi, We are utilizing a promise vtrak m500i iscsi array. We are connecting to it utilizing open-iscsi version 2.0-865.9. We have it working just fine. The problem we are having is that we are getting a maximum throughput of about 30 MB/sec. This does not seem right to me. I'm expecting abou 65 MB/