Re: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-22 Thread Dave Stibrany
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm looking forward to the day when we upgrade to SSDs. For future reference, the bonnie++ numbers I was referring to are: Size: 63G Sequential Output: 396505 K/sec % CPU 21 Sequential Input: 401117 K/sec % CPU 21

[PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-19 Thread Dave Stibrany
I'm pretty new to benchmarking hard disks and I'm looking for some advice on interpreting the results of some basic tests. The server is: - Dell PowerEdge R430 - 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.4GHz - 32 GB RAM - 4 x 600GB 10k SAS Seagate ST600MM0088 in RAID 10 - PERC H730P Raid Controller with 2GB cache

Re: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-19 Thread Mike Sofen
question, feel free to clarify for me. Mike From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dave Stibrany Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 1:45 PM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question I&#

Re: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Given the size of your bonnie test set and the fact that you're using > RAID-10, the cache should make little or no difference. The RAID > controller may or may not interleave reads between all four drives. > Some do, some don't. It looks to

Re: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Dave Stibrany wrote: > I'm pretty new to benchmarking hard disks and I'm looking for some advice on > interpreting the results of some basic tests. > > The server is: > - Dell PowerEdge R430 > - 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.4GHz > - 32 GB RAM > - 4 x 600GB 10k SAS Seag

Re: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-19 Thread Dave Stibrany
me. > > > > Mike > > > > *From:* pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto: > pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] *On Behalf Of *Dave Stibrany > *Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2016 1:45 PM > *To:* pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > *Subject:* [PERFORM] Disk Benc

Re: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question

2016-03-18 Thread Mike Sofen
mailto:pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org> ] On Behalf Of Dave Stibrany Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 1:45 PM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <mailto:pgsql-performance@postgresql.org> Subject: [PERFORM] Disk Benchmarking Question I'm pretty new to benchmarking hard disks and