Re: Bad RAID1 read performance

Hardware isn't very good I believe, and it's about 2-3 years old, but the RAID
is Linux software, and though not very good the difference between reading
and writing should probably be greater... (?)

Would you set 512Kb readahead on both drives and RAID? I tried various
configurations and none seemed to make a big difference. It seemed correct to
me to set 512kb per drive and 1024kb for md0.

A Dimecres 30 Maig 2007 16:09, Luke Lonergan va escriure:
> This sounds like a bad RAID controller - are you using a built-in hardware
> RAID?  If so, you will likely want to use Linux software RAID instead.
>
> Also - you might want to try a 512KB readahead - I've found that is optimal
> for RAID1 on some RAID controllers.
>
> - Luke
>
> On 5/30/07 2:35 AM, "Albert Cervera Areny" <albert@sedifa.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > after doing the "dd" tests for a server we have at work I obtained:
> > Read: 47.20 Mb/s
> > Write: 39.82 Mb/s
> > Some days ago read performance was around 20Mb/s due to no readahead in
> > md0 so I modified it using hdparm. However, it seems to me that being it
> > a RAID1 read speed could be much better. These are SATA disks with 3Gb of
> > RAM so I did 'time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=786432
> > && sync"'. File system is ext3 (if read many times in the list that XFS
> > is faster), but I don't want to change the file system right now.
> > Modifing the readahead from the current 1024k to 2048k doesn't make any
> > difference. Are there any other tweaks I can make?
> >
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