Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Smith
> Greg Lehey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:33:19AM +0930: > [...] > > depends on what you're trying to do. But yes, having only two > > controllers will halve your RAID-5 write performance. Note also that > > with a 256 kB stripe, you'll run into drive contention problems > > becaus

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Greg Lehey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:33:19AM +0930: [...] > depends on what you're trying to do. But yes, having only two > controllers will halve your RAID-5 write performance. Note also that > with a 256 kB stripe, you'll run into drive contention problems > because all your s

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-10 Thread Esko Petteri Matinsola
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 22:24:51 +0300, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: > > Please don't use bonnie. It's not measuring what you think it is. OK, I used rawio as you suggested. > I don't know how you'd find anything at vinumvm.org which tells you

RE: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Brandon Gale
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:03 PM > To: Esko Petteri Matinsola; Clark Shishido > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem > > > On Frid

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 22:24:51 +0300, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: > Thank you for your last reply about the Promise 100 controller, I got it > working with that patch. > > But now, I have Asus P2L97 mobo with 64MB RAM, 266MHz P2 and 4 Maxtor > 54098H8's, two per channel. OS is FreeBSD

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-08 Thread Clark Shishido
At 22:24 +0300 2000.09.08, Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: > >read performance and seeks seems OK, but block writes only about 1/9th ! >As I read from www.vinumvm.org I should get something like 5MBps block >writes. > >Have I misunderstood something, configured someting improperly, it's >because of