Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Samstag, 14. April 2001 14:28 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > Does turning unmaskirq on help? Already tried this, but it doesn't help The actual settings (same on /dev/hdc): bash-2.04# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:38:06AM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Am Samstag, 14. April 2001 09:04 schrieb David Rees: > > > OK, so it's not the RAID setup. There's two things that can cause this. > > One is that DMA is turned off (what does hdparm /dev/hda and hdparm > > /dev/hdc show?), the se

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 20:11 schrieb Tim Moore: > Try 'hdparm -tT' with simultaneous /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3. This gives > you a baseline on the actual partitions involved. hdparm -tT simultanous on /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3: /dev/hda3: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.29 seconds

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Samstag, 14. April 2001 09:04 schrieb David Rees: > OK, so it's not the RAID setup. There's two things that can cause this. > One is that DMA is turned off (what does hdparm /dev/hda and hdparm > /dev/hdc show?), the second was that the drives are on the same channel > (which obviously isn't

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:28:20PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 18:07 schrieb David Rees: > > > Cconfig and setup looks OK. > > > > What happens if your run hdparm -t /dev/hda and /dev/hdc at the same time? > > Good idea! > The performance is only ~11MB/sec per disk >

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Tim Moore
David Rees wrote: > What happens if your run hdparm -t /dev/hda and /dev/hdc at the same time? Try 'hdparm -tT' with simultaneous /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3. This gives you a baseline on the actual partitions involved. rgds, tim. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 18:01 schrieb Jakob Østergaard: > I can't say much about this... It looks like your setup is perfectly > allright, and the performance *should* go up. Instead it looks like you > get a small performance drop from using the RAID. Most odd. > > Do you have more contro

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 18:07 schrieb David Rees: > Cconfig and setup looks OK. > > What happens if your run hdparm -t /dev/hda and /dev/hdc at the same time? Good idea! The performance is only ~11MB/sec per disk There is a bottleneck somewhere... Andreas -- Andreas Peter *** [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:36:55PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Mark Hahn schrieb: > > > hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec > > > hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec > > > hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec > > > > md0 is composed of partitions located where on hda and hdc? > > also, what's your CPU?

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:47:30PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Hi, > I've successfully set up SW-RAID0 with Kernel 2.4.3 and Raidtools 0.9. > I did this to increase the performance of my HD, but nothig happens. > The hdparm results: > hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec > hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.5

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Mark Hahn schrieb: > > hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec > > hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec > > hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec > > md0 is composed of partitions located where on hda and hdc? > also, what's your CPU? This is my raidtab file: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level

SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Hi, I've successfully set up SW-RAID0 with Kernel 2.4.3 and Raidtools 0.9. I did this to increase the performance of my HD, but nothig happens. The hdparm results: hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec I thougt the performnace of RAI