Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-30 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 26 Nov 2009 at 11:06, Chris K. wrote: I thought of posting the statistics for all cores but chose the sum instead but here are all the details : Client : Tasks: 98 total, 2 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-27 Thread Chris K.
I thought of posting the statistics for all cores but chose the sum instead but here are all the details : Client : Tasks: 98 total, 2 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 1.3%sy,

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-27 Thread Chris K.
I thought of posting the statistics for all cores but chose the sum instead but here are all the details : Client : Tasks: 98 total, 2 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 1.3%sy,

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-27 Thread Chris K.
I thought of posting the individuals core statistics but opted for the sum but here are all the details during the dd transfer : Client : top - 05:33:59 up 5 days, 17:03, 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.10, 0.03 Tasks: 98 total, 2 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 :

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-27 Thread Chris K.
I thought of posting the statistics for all cores but chose the sum instead but here are all the details : Client : Tasks: 98 total, 2 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 1.3%sy,

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:07:12AM -0800, Chris K. wrote: Hello, I'm writing in regards to the performance with open-iscsi on a 10gbe network. On your website you posted performance results indicating you reached read and write speeds of 450 MegaBytes per second. In our environment we

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-25 Thread Chris K.
The dd command I am running is time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=/mnt/ iscsi/10gfile.txt count=10240 My fs is xfs (mkfs.xfs -d agcount=8 -l internal,size=128m -n size=8k - i size=2048 /dev/sdb1 -f) those are the parameters used to format the drive. Here are the top values: Cpu(s): 0.0%us,

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-25 Thread Chris K.
Thank you for your response. The SAN is a 10gbe Nimbus with I believe to be iscsitarget(http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) as it's target server. The switch is a Cisco Nexus5010 set to jumbo frame and flow control. We have through tcp/ip performance tests in conjunction with Cisco proved that

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-25 Thread Chris K.
Here is the dd command : time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=/mnt/iscsi/ 10gfile.txt count=10240 Here are the cpu values : Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 8.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 25.0%id, 64.0%wa, 0.4%hi, 1.9%si, 0.0%st - Client Cpu(s): 0.6%us, 2.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.4%id, 9.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.4%si, 0.0%st - SAN I

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-25 Thread Mike Christie
Boaz Harrosh wrote: On 11/24/2009 06:07 PM, Chris K. wrote: Hello, I'm writing in regards to the performance with open-iscsi on a 10gbe network. On your website you posted performance results indicating you reached read and write speeds of 450 MegaBytes per second. In our environment

Re: openiscsi 10gbe network

2009-11-25 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 25 Nov 2009 at 14:15, Chris K. wrote: Here are the cpu values : Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 8.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 25.0%id, 64.0%wa, 0.4%hi, A note: I don't know how well open-iscsi uses multiple threads, but looking at individual CPUs may be interesting, as the above is only an average for multiple