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Date:      Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:12:51 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, kbayer@ligo.mit.edu
Subject:   Re: raid disks in FreeBSD (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20020805024251.GD83171@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208040050030.21139-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10208040050030.21139-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Sunday,  4 August 2002 at  0:56:01 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> Anyone know how to best tune a system for RAID performance?

Well, not with bonnie, anyway.  The big difference you show below have
nothing to do with the controller.  The only bonnie test that comes
close to measuring the storage subsystem is the random seeks test.

> Keith, what kind of RAID controller is it?

I suspect that this is the most important question.

Greg

> bonnie++ on RedHat7.3:
> ----------------------
>
> Version 1.02c       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
>                     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
> Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
> ldaspc1          4G 19609  89 25024  19 12918   7 24581  98 170855  40 444.4   1
>                     ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
>                     -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
>               files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
>                  16  2222  96 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2315  98 +++++ +++  5867  98
>
> bonnie++ on FreeBSD 4.6 Stable:
> -------------------------------
>
> Version 1.02c       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
>                     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
> Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
> ldaspc1.mit.edu  4G 31232  37 35220  17 17349  11 57123  73 76943  22 462.3   1
>                     ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
>                     -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
>               files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
>                  16 29511  64 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 31783  69 +++++ +++ +++++ +++
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