Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 22:17, schrieb thegeezer: > On 06/11/2014 07:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> looks promising: >> > > awesome. i did have a look through the diff, there are lots of scsi > drivers selected, storage (block) cgroups but i think the crucial factor > was the HZ was set at 100 previ

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 07:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > looks promising: > awesome. i did have a look through the diff, there are lots of scsi drivers selected, storage (block) cgroups but i think the crucial factor was the HZ was set at 100 previously and 1000 now. i guess it has helped kernel-io

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
looks promising: virt-backup dumps and packs a 12 GB image-file within ~145 seconds to a non-compressing btrfs subvolume: a) does a LVM-snapshot b) dd with bs=4M and through pigz to the target file The bigger LV with ~250GB is running right now. The system feels snappier than with the old ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 03:15 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: >> So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? >>> I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? >> >> I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is >> stealing the activity. can you start up with no s

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: >> So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? > > I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is > stealing the activity. can you start up with no services enabled and > do the test ? hm, yes. although I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 01:41 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 13:52, schrieb thegeezer: > >> ok baffling. >> sdc i already said would be slower but not this much slower >> it certainly should not be slower than the lvm that sits on top of it! >> i can't see anything in the cgroups that stands

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 13:52, schrieb thegeezer: > ok baffling. > sdc i already said would be slower but not this much slower > it certainly should not be slower than the lvm that sits on top of it! > i can't see anything in the cgroups that stands out, maybe someone else > can give a better voice to this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 12:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 13:18, schrieb thegeezer: > >> just out of curiosity, what happens if you do # dd >> if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 # dd if=/dev/sdc >> of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 > > > booze ~ # dd if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 13:18, schrieb thegeezer: > just out of curiosity, what happens if you do # dd > if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 # dd if=/dev/sdc > of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 booze ~ # dd if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 100+0 Datensätze ein 100+0 Datensätze a

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 13:01, schrieb thegeezer: > yeah this is very very odd. > firstly there should not be such discrepancy between hdparm -t and dd if= > secondly you would imagine that the first dd would be cached and so > would be faster the second time round > please check for the turbo boost disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for >>> /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) >> >> OK here is the clue. >> if the LVs are also showing such fast speed, then please can you sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for >>> /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) >> >> OK here is the clue. >> if the LVs are also showing such fast speed, then please can you sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: >> everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for >> /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) > > > OK here is the clue. > if the LVs are also showing such fast speed, then please can you show > your command that you are trying to run that is so

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 12:14, schrieb thegeezer: > >>> Basically 3 RAID-6 hw-raids over 6 SAS hdds. >> OK so i'm confused again. RAID6 requires minimum of 4 drives. >> if you have 3 raid6's then you would need 12 drives (coffee hasn't quite >> activate

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 12:14, schrieb thegeezer: >> Basically 3 RAID-6 hw-raids over 6 SAS hdds. > > OK so i'm confused again. RAID6 requires minimum of 4 drives. > if you have 3 raid6's then you would need 12 drives (coffee hasn't quite > activated in me yet so my maths may not be right) > or do you ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:14 AM, thegeezer wrote: > just some extra thoughts *cough* yeah i meant to keep typing! the extra thoughts are that the better way of doing this would be to create up RAID1 physicaldisks1+2 RAID6 physicaldisks3,4,5,6 then put lvm on there as vg01 with two PVs, one on the raid1 v

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 10:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.06.2014 11:19, schrieb thegeezer: > >> Hi Stefan, >> block size / stripe size mismatches only really penalise random io, if >> you are trying to use dd and have slow speeds this would suggest >> something else is awry. >> I don't know the

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 05/27/2014 02:03 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I think I have some IO-topic going on ... very likely some mismatch of > block sizes ... the hw-raid, then LVM, then the snapshot on top of > that ... and a filesystem with properties as target ... oh my. Chosing > noop as IO-scheduler helps a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
hello again ... noone interested? ;-) I understand in a way ... Maybe I have something in the kernel misconfigured ... Right now I get these messages again: [ 1998.118658] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts Should I disable HPET in the BIOS and/or via kernel command line? I never know how to set t

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Found out something about megacli and checked settings for cache and stuff following http://highperfpostgres.com/guides/lsi-megaraid-setup-for-postgresql/ Did I set a wrong Strip Size for the third array? good night, late here ... Stefan # megacli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL Adapter 0 -- Virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
additional infos from journalctl. I don't like the fact with 512-byte logical blocks vs. 4096-byte physical blocks ... sounds wrong, hm? -> Jun 10 21:54:31 booze kernel: megaraid_sas :02:00.0: Controller type: MR,Memory size is: 512MB Jun 10 21:54:31 booze kernel: scsi7 : LSI SAS based Mega

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.05.2014 15:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> way too slow ... > > I think I have some IO-topic going on ... very likely some mismatch of > block sizes ... > > the hw-raid, then LVM, then the snapshot on top of that ... and a > filesystem with properties as target ... oh my. > > Chosing

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.05.2014 21:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 26.05.2014 19:47, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> But I somehow think the performance is sub-optimal. > > virt-backup is slow as well (using dd and gzip or pigz in my own patched > version). Yes, that LVM stuff again ... > > I run 6 SAS

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-05-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.05.2014 19:47, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > But I somehow think the performance is sub-optimal. virt-backup is slow as well (using dd and gzip or pigz in my own patched version). Yes, that LVM stuff again ... I run 6 SAS disks and built hardware raids. Should I look into the cache sett

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-05-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.05.2014 21:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 23.05.2014 09:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I have a new Fujitsu TX150 here, with a >> >> Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller >> >> and an LTO4 drive attached to it. >> >> My kernel has support for isci, scsi tape, ahci and

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-05-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.05.2014 09:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Greetings, > > I have a new Fujitsu TX150 here, with a > > Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller > > and an LTO4 drive attached to it. > > My kernel has support for isci, scsi tape, ahci and all the sas stuff > ... but I don't get any "st" devices.

[gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-05-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greetings, I have a new Fujitsu TX150 here, with a Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller and an LTO4 drive attached to it. My kernel has support for isci, scsi tape, ahci and all the sas stuff ... but I don't get any "st" devices. Do I need SCSI_PROC_FS set? I just wonder ... thanks, Stefan