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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:35:25 -0500
From:      Gary Stanley <gary@outloud.org>
To:        Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange performance dip shown by iozone
Message-ID:  <6.0.1.1.2.20040220143227.01ee0ec0@208.141.46.3>
In-Reply-To: <D4B74A4C-63DA-11D8-B35A-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
References:  <200402181729.06202@misha-mx.virtual-estates.net> <20040220072258.GA17579@VARK.homeunix.com> <200402201147.03606@misha-mx.virtual-estates.net> <D4B74A4C-63DA-11D8-B35A-003065ABFD92@mac.com>

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Here's some knobs to try, ie;

RAID5:  Write Back Cache, Normal Read Ahead, and Direct I/O
RAID1:  Write Through Cache, Normal Read Ahead, and Direct I/O

That picked up my write speeds just enough so it wasn't nearly as bad 
writing as reading.

At 02:27 PM 2/20/2004, you wrote:
>On Feb 20, 2004, at 11:47 AM, mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com wrote:
>>Also, is the RAID5 writing speed supposed to be _so much_ worse, than
>>that of a single disk?
>
>it's normal for RAID-5 write performance to be slower than that of a bare 
>drive.  RAID filesystems involve tradeoffs between cost, performance, and 
>reliability.  RAID-5 maximizes cost and reliability at the expense of 
>performance....
>
>--
>-Chuck
>
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