Re: Gmirror performanc

2006-10-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Guido van Rooij wrote: > But a single-threaded process accessing a large file should also be > able to see a speed increase. I really do not see why a split or roundrobin > approach to a mirror would get only half the performance of a raw access > to a non-mirror. Somehow there must a limit of 128

Re: Gmirror performanc

2006-10-25 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:50:04PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Guido van Rooij wrote: > > Anyway, I created a gm device and a partition. Now the read performance > > is not what I'd expect. > > I have the partition on two SATA devices on different controlers. > > I get around 60MB/s for each

Re: Gmirror performanc

2006-10-25 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Oliver Fromme wrote: Guido van Rooij wrote: > Anyway, I created a gm device and a partition. Now the read performance > is not what I'd expect. > I have the partition on two SATA devices on different controlers. > I get around 60MB/s for each disk. I can get that speed from both disks > simu

Re: Gmirror performanc (was Re: Gmirror question)

2006-10-25 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Guido van Rooij wrote: Anyway, I created a gm device and a partition. Now the read performance is not what I'd expect. I have the partition on two SATA devices on different controlers. I get around 60MB/s for each disk. I can get that speed from both disks simultaneously. Now when I dd from the g

Re: Gmirror performanc

2006-10-25 Thread Michel Talon
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried with -b split -s , -b round-robin, -b load. > > (dd-ing as done with a bs of 1m; I see the transaction size is 128Kb, > > unless the split method is used, in which case the transaction size > > gies down. When round-robin is used, the transa

Re: Gmirror performanc (was Re: Gmirror question)

2006-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:24:55PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote: > Anyway, I created a gm device and a partition. Now the read performance > is not what I'd expect. > I have the partition on two SATA devices on different controlers. > I get around 60MB/s for each disk. I can get that speed from bot

Re: Gmirror performanc

2006-10-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Guido van Rooij wrote: > Anyway, I created a gm device and a partition. Now the read performance > is not what I'd expect. > I have the partition on two SATA devices on different controlers. > I get around 60MB/s for each disk. I can get that speed from both disks > simultaneously. > Now when

Gmirror performanc (was Re: Gmirror question)

2006-10-25 Thread Guido van Rooij
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:48:29PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > You don't need to. > > If your bsdlabel partition is N sectors in size, the gmirror > object will have size N - 1. Newfs will not be able to write > to that last sector. You newfs the finished mirror device, > not the individual