Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-11 Thread Fernando Gleiser
- Original Message > From: Ross Walker > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 12:30:43 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Andrzej Szymanski

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Andrzej Szymanski wrote: > On 2010-02-09 18:15, Fernando Gleiser wrote: >> Every time we try to copy some large file to the storage-based file >> system, the disk utilization see-saws up to 100% to several seconds >> of inactivity, to climb up again to 100% and

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-10 Thread Andrzej Szymanski
On 2010-02-09 18:15, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > Every time we try to copy some large file to the storage-based file system, > the disk utilization see-saws up to 100% to several seconds of inactivity, to > climb up again to 100% and so forth. > Here are a snip from the iostat -kx 1: > > Device:

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: nate >> >> Not sure I know what the issue is but telling us how many disks, >> what the RPM of the disks are, and what level of RAID would probably >> help. >> >> It sounds like perhaps you have a bun

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread nate
nate wrote: > Perhaps RAID 6, as I've never heard of RAID 5 with two parity (two > parity is dual parity which is RAID 6). Forgot to mention my own personal preference on my high end SAN at least is for RAID 5 with a 3:1 parity ratio, or a max of 5:1 or 6:1, really never higher than that unless a

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread nate
Fernando Gleiser wrote: > yes, ita bunch of 12 7k2 RPM disks organized as 1 hot spare, 2 parity disks, > 9 data disks in a RAID 5 configuration. is 9/2 a "high ratio"? Perhaps RAID 6, as I've never heard of RAID 5 with two parity (two parity is dual parity which is RAID 6). RAID 6 performance ca

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
- Original Message > From: nate > > Not sure I know what the issue is but telling us how many disks, > what the RPM of the disks are, and what level of RAID would probably > help. > > It sounds like perhaps you have a bunch of 7200RPM disks in a RAID > setup where the data:parity ratio

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread nate
Fernando Gleiser wrote: > we're having a weird disk I/O problem on a 5.4 server connected to an > external SAS storage with an LSI logic megaraid sas 1078. Not sure I know what the issue is but telling us how many disks, what the RPM of the disks are, and what level of RAID would probably help. I

[CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
we're having a weird disk I/O problem on a 5.4 server connected to an external SAS storage with an LSI logic megaraid sas 1078. The server is used as a samba file server. Every time we try to copy some large file to the storage-based file system, the disk utilization see-saws up to 100% to seve