Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:35:28 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Randy Schultz" <schulra@earlham.edu>, "Kevin Kobb" <kkobb@skylinecorp.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid] Message-ID: <156801c79706$aa776da0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0705101545340.34925@tdream.lly.earlham.edu><464474F0.3040306@tomjudge.com><7579f7fb0705110735h1a65ef7atcab00bdbc25224d6@mail.gmail.com><4649A71C.4030302@skylinecorp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.64.0705150948390.61298@tdream.lly.earlham.edu>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Schultz" <schulra@earlham.edu>
> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly:
>
> -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA
> -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives?
> -}
> -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS drives, and seem to get decent
> -}performance, though I haven't run any benchmarks yet. Any opinions if the
> -}PERC5i/mfi is a better choice than the SAS5iR/mpt combination?
>
> Would it be possible for you to install blogbench and give it a quick run
> while your system is idle? We will be ordering a new box in 1-2 months that
> we need high disk I/O capabilities. We've been looking at the PERC5i set up
> RAID 5 with 4-6 SAS drives. I'ld be interested in what you're seeing for
> throughput on the PERC5i.
Some more results for you:
== Areca ARC-1220 ==
Areca ARC-1220 + Battery Backup with 8 * 150Gb WD Raptors (10K RPM) configured
in RAID6 + Hot Spare so 7 working spindles results in:
Frequency = 10 secs
Scratch dir = [/data/tmp]
Spawning 3 writers...
Spawning 1 rewriters...
Spawning 5 commenters...
Spawning 100 readers...
Benchmarking for 30 iterations.
The test will run during 5 minutes.
Nb blogs R articles W articles R pictures W pictures R comments W comments
41 37719 2228 22258 2013 23190 7008
57 39954 1043 24603 779 26945 3550
71 38746 1014 25218 666 23354 3414
86 36110 941 23533 703 22249 3282
97 32346 874 21055 740 20869 2981
112 36707 1056 23720 750 22823 3386
124 35534 888 23323 821 21940 3356
137 25196 660 16208 676 16977 2358
149 35040 840 23653 807 21080 3232
158 24329 718 16193 572 15066 2317
167 24366 532 16708 640 15233 2337
185 35928 997 24651 882 21375 3420
193 22099 715 15436 522 12676 2117
202 27299 809 18668 637 17300 2592
214 25118 754 16876 680 14600 2582
222 20329 667 13849 410 12075 1964
231 21969 600 15775 690 13738 2379
240 22660 750 16020 509 14186 2276
249 19831 745 13579 481 14324 2235
256 23765 668 16641 559 14750 2333
264 22115 627 15617 654 15476 2333
270 20561 532 14158 558 11860 2043
280 25558 723 17943 626 15589 2434
291 16869 598 11561 435 10055 1965
301 19401 546 14082 508 10716 1869
311 20494 453 15141 705 13066 2126
321 16084 554 11046 430 9324 2065
331 25701 752 17375 626 15792 2620
338 14169 409 10341 438 8506 1611
347 24724 680 18128 625 15903 2465
Final score for writes: 347
Final score for reads : 15832
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #2: Thu Apr 26 15:20:20 BST 2007
root@xxx:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/MPUK_SMP
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz (2666.68-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f7 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x4e3bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,<b9>,CX16,<b14>,<b15>,<b18>>
AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
Cores per package: 4
real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB)
avail memory = 8295161856 (7910 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
== Highpoint 1820a ==
Highpoint 1820a with 6 * 400Gb WD's (7.2K RPM) in RAID5
Frequency = 10 secs
Scratch dir = [/usr/tmp]
Spawning 3 writers...
Spawning 1 rewriters...
Spawning 5 commenters...
Spawning 100 readers...
Benchmarking for 30 iterations.
The test will run during 5 minutes.
Nb blogs R articles W articles R pictures W pictures R comments W comments
5 9334 443 5561 363 4166 1477
13 11977 166 8193 331 5334 773
16 10382 211 7732 202 5528 789
22 14594 351 11012 263 7480 1118
23 5804 39 4138 59 1516 378
26 9506 214 6429 323 4683 706
33 17630 356 12042 276 10262 1113
36 17793 339 12650 225 10952 1197
40 8724 218 6474 271 6319 710
45 10215 309 7221 259 6435 872
50 17840 453 12532 367 11503 1155
51 12039 132 9008 125 6669 734
52 8224 96 5970 79 4691 466
57 12451 386 8609 383 7810 1026
59 16391 216 11850 250 9473 871
61 5343 114 4069 98 3982 401
65 13373 269 10051 327 8619 956
70 10978 251 7848 279 8041 1114
70 20616 121 15436 76 11681 558
75 12599 313 9119 250 8175 1063
76 15073 135 11249 165 9889 602
77 12477 29 9612 45 8797 253
82 13614 302 10454 274 7634 1069
83 12168 117 9496 50 8031 373
87 11113 253 7938 220 7348 856
90 14509 334 10864 260 10642 989
91 9866 56 7755 62 6415 277
92 2930 37 2052 41 1413 207
96 19459 385 13961 275 12529 1231
98 10386 86 7774 124 6582 344
Final score for writes: 98
Final score for reads : 7875
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Mon Mar 19 19:25:53 GMT 2007
root@xxx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MPUK_SMP_200HZ
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC >
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 (1794.42-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf5a Stepping = 10
Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory = 2146893824 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2095816704 (1998 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
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