Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Raz
dent)k > 0inputs+0outputs (6major+526minor)pagefaults 0swaps > 27.18user 5.52system 0:52.54elapsed 62%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k > 0inputs+0outputs (6major+527minor)pagefaults 0swaps > 27.17user 5.50system 0:51.38elapsed 63%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k > 0inputs+0outputs (6major+525minor)pagefaults 0swaps > > Justin. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: mounting raid5 with different unit values

2007-12-08 Thread Raz
rote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:48:14AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > man mount :) > > Ah of course. > > But those will be more restrictive that what you can specify when you > make the file-system (because mkfs.xfs can aligned the AGs to suit). > -- Raz - To

Re: /proc/mdstat docs (was Re: Few questions)

2007-12-08 Thread Raz
e... > > http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Mdstat > > Comments welcome... > > David > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/maj

Re: Superblocks

2007-10-27 Thread Raz
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Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-22 Thread Raz
On 6/22/07, Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Raz wrote: > What is your raid configuration ? > Please note that the stripe_cache_size is acting as a bottle neck in some > cases. Well, it's 3x SATA drives in raid5. 320G drives each, and I'm us

Re: stripe_cache_size and performance

2007-06-21 Thread Raz
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Re: XFS on x86_64 Linux Question

2007-04-28 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: raid5 write performance

2007-04-19 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 4/16/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/13/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday March 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 4. > > I am going to work on this with other configurations, such as raid5's > > wit

Re: raid5 write performance

2007-04-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 4/2/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/30/07, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please see bellow. > > On 8/28/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > well ...

Re: raid5 write performance

2007-03-31 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
On 3/31/07, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > Please see bellow. > > On 8/28/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > well ... me again >> > >> > Foll

Re: raid5 write performance

2007-03-30 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
67648.00 0 67648 sdb 113.00 0.00 67648.00 0 67648 sdc 113.00 0.00 67648.00 0 67648 sdd 128.00131072.00 0.00 131072 0 md1 561.00 0.00135168.00

Re: slow 'check'

2007-02-11 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
> 21MB/s is about right for 5-6 disks, when you go to 10 it drops to > about 5-8MB/s on a PCI system. Wait, let's say that we have three drives and 1m chunk size. So we read 1M here, 1M there, and 1M somewhere else, and get 2M data and 1M parity which we check. With five we would read 4M data and 1M parity, but have 4M checked. The end case is that for each stripe we read N*chunk bytes and verify (N-1)*chunk. In fact the data is (N-1)/N of the stripe, and the percentage gets higher (not lower) as you add drives. I see no reason why more drives would be slower, a higher percentage of the bytes read are data. That doesn't mean that you can't run out of Bus bandwidth, but number of drives is not obviously the issue. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: slow 'check'

2007-02-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
capabilty. meaning : see if dd'in for each disk in the system seperately reduces the total throughput. On 1/18/07, Sevrin Robstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried to increase the cache size - I can't measure any difference. Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote:

Re: bad performance on RAID 5

2007-01-18 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
l If they are on the PCI bus, that is about right, you probably should be getting 10-15MB/s, but it is about right. If you had each drive on its own PCI-e controller, then you would get much faster speeds. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of

Re: Odd (slow) RAID performance

2006-12-12 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Bill helllo I have been working on raid5 performance write throughout. The whole idea is the access pattern. One should buffers with respect to the size of stripe. this way you will be able to eiliminate the undesired reads. By accessing it correctly I have managed reach a write throughout wi

Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

2006-08-26 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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Re: raid5 write performance

2006-08-13 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
reduction in performance if deadline line it too long (say 100 ms). raz On 7/3/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday July 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil hello. > > I have been looking at the raid5 code trying to understand why writes > performance is so

raid5.h documentation

2006-07-19 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Neil hello. you say raid5.h: ... * Whenever the delayed queue is empty and the device is not plugged, we * move any strips from delayed to handle and clear the DELAYED flag and set PREREAD_ACTIVE. ... i do not understand how can one move from delayed if delayed is empty . thank you -- Raz

raid5 write performance

2006-07-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
can i increase the write throughout ? Thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

read perfomance patchset

2006-06-19 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
sed count of active stripes */ + bi->bi_hw_segments = 0; /* count of processed stripes */ + } + + return bi; +} -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

raid 5 read performance

2006-06-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
need to know which kernel do you want me to use ? i am using poor 2.6.15. I thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

improving raid 5 performance

2006-05-23 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
op the max=0 case ? 1.2 what these lines mean ? do i need it ? if (max <= biovec->bv_len && bio_sectors == 0) return biovec->bv_len; else return max; } thank you Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

raid 5 read performance

2006-05-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
// // make upper level to the work for me // return 1; } ... } it increased the performance to 440 MB/s. Question : What is the cost of not walking trough the raid5 code in the case of READ ? if i add and error handlin

Re: Cheap Clustered FS

2006-04-13 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
ng occurs? In particular, I want to say that the "buffer_head" > kernel buffer is the specific slab that is used for the caching? > > Thanks, > Jon > > On 4/13/06, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > may be lustre > > > > On 4/13/06

Re: Cheap Clustered FS

2006-04-13 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
-- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- > | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://

How is an IO size are determnied ?

2006-04-03 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
ould you explain this ? why I am not getting two 1/2 MB ? Could it be the slab cache ? ( biovec256) Thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: question : raid bio sector size

2006-03-29 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
t; but still why so small ? > > Odd.. When I try that I get 4096 repeatedly. > Which kernel are you using? > What does >blockdev --getbsz /dev/md1 > say? > Do you have a filesystem mounted on /dev/md1? If so, what sort of > filesystem. > > NeilBrown > -

Re: question : raid bio sector size

2006-03-29 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
512:512:512:512:512 I suppose they gathered in the elevator, but still why so small ? thank you raz. On 3/27/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday March 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i have playing with raid5 and i noticed that the arriving bios sizes > > ar

question : raid bio sector size

2006-03-27 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
i have playing with raid5 and i noticed that the arriving bios sizes are 1 sector. why is that and where is it set ? thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: raid and elevator

2006-03-27 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
i am sending 1MB buffer to a raid of 1MB chunk size. i know that each offset is aligned by the chunk size. On 3/27/06, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > don't top-post! > > On Mon, Mar 27 2006, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > I know that. > > Curre

raid and elevator

2006-03-26 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
. I am trying to deal with this problem by fixing the deadline elevator code to batch IOs , meaning , when n IOs are reaching the disk, each m deadlined IOs are sorted and then dispatced. I would appreciate any coments in this matter. thank you Raz Ben Yehuda - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: raid5 performance question

2006-03-07 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
dom access to the disk ? 2. Does direct IO passes this cache ? 3. How can a dd of 1 MB over 1MB chunck size acheive this high throughputs of 4 disks even if does not get the stripe cache benifits ? thank you raz. On 3/7/06, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday March

Re: raid5 performance question

2006-03-06 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
it reads raw. no filesystem whatsover. On 3/6/06, Gordon Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > > Neil Hello . > > I have a performance question. > > > > I am using raid5 stripe size 1024K over 4 dis

raid5 performance question

2006-03-06 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
g a single disk , but by looking at iostat i can see that all disks are active but with low throughput. Any idea ? Thank you. -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vg

Re: NCQ general question

2006-03-04 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
or the full-stroke random case. > Local area workloads need to be analyzed more thoroughly, and may > differ in performance gain by manufacturer. > > --eric > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: NCQ general question

2006-03-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Thank you Mr Garzik. Is there a list of all drivers and there features they give ? Raz. On 3/2/06, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > (don't top post) > > > > On Thu, Mar 02 2006, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > > >>i can

Re: NCQ general question

2006-03-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
l support NCQ when AHCI does > > Great! The sane choice, for both producer and consumer. > > > * slight correction to the above: sil24 will do NCQ, I don't think sil does > > Ok, it was more of an umbrella sil label, I haven't looked into specific > models. > > -- > Jens Axboe > > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-10 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
NBD for network block device ? why do u use it ? what type of elevator do you use ? On 1/10/06, JaniD++ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "JaniD++" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-09 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
, JaniD++ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "JaniD++" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Linux RAID Mailing List" > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:49 PM >

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-04 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
inal Message ----- > From: "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Linux RAID Mailing List" > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:14 AM > Subject: Re: raid5 read performance > > > >

Re: raid5 read performance

2006-01-04 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
; multiple outstanding reads? > > > Is it because it does parity checkings ? > > non-degraded R5 doesn't do parity checks on reads, afaik. > > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

raid5 read performance

2006-01-03 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
I am checking raid5 performance. I am using asynchronous ios with buffer size as the stripe size. In this case i am using a stripe size of 1M with 2+1 disks. Unlike raid0 , raid5 drops the performance by 50% . Why ? Is it because it does parity checkings ? thank you -- Raz - To unsubscribe from

Re: raid 0 read performance

2005-12-29 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
what "wrt" stands for ? On 12/29/05, Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 10:10]: > > I have tested the overhead of linux raid0. > > I used two scsi atlas maxtor disks ( 147 MB) and combined them to single &g

Re: RAID0 performance question

2005-11-26 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
/dev/md3 > raid-disk 2 > device /dev/md4 > raid-disk 3 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
r personality registered as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 On 11/21/05, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:15:11AM -0800, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > Well , i

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Well , i have tested the disk with a new tester i have written. it seems that the ata driver causes the high cpu and not raid. On 11/21/05, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What sort of a test is it ? what filesystem ? > I am reading concurrently 50 files . > Are

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
What sort of a test is it ? what filesystem ? I am reading concurrently 50 files . Are you reading one file , several files ? On 11/21/05, Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- > > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-21 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
TED] [mailto:linux-raid- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) > > Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:50 AM > > To: Linux RAID Mailing List > > Subject: comparing FreeBSD to linux > > > > I have evaluated which is better in terms cpu load whe

Re: comparing FreeBSD to linux

2005-11-20 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
i have an intel ich6 ide controller chipset revision 3. this is the obnly chipset i found in dmesg. On 11/20/05, Lajber Zoltan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > > I am using sata maxtor disks over raid0. i am using &g

Re: raid5 recovery fails

2005-11-14 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
ant to know before i dive into the raid code that it is realy a bug. On 11/14/05, Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:27:25PM +0200, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > I have made the following test with my raid5: > > 1. created raid5 with 4 s

raid5 recovery fails

2005-11-14 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
that it rejects the dirty disk. Anyone ? -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: RAID5 question.

2005-08-04 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
how is the disks performance ? is it OK ? On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, it is there, I know it. > But its only for resync or not? :-) > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Raz Ben Jehuda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[E

Re: RAID5 question.

2005-08-04 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
take a look at /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max . it is kilobytes if i recall correctly. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 17:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks a lot for you, and Raz! > > The raw devices readahead I already set with the hdparm, and > /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb

Re: RAID5 question.

2005-08-04 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
r helping! > > Janos > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Raz Long live the penguin - To unsubscribe f

Re: 3ware raid question

2005-08-03 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
"unlock the drive" ? On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 10:26 -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > > > i have encountered a weired feature of 3ware raid. > > When i try to put inside an existing raid a disk which > > belonged

Re: 3ware raid question

2005-08-02 Thread Raz Ben Jehuda
I know that some raid management information is save on the disks. But I am using 250 GB disks at minimum dd'ing this amount would be too long. Has know the exact position of where to dd ? On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:27 -0700, Jason Leach wrote: > Raz: > > The 3ware (at least my 9500

3ware raid question

2005-08-02 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
i have encountered a weired feature of 3ware raid. When i try to put inside an existing raid a disk which belonged to a different 3ware raid if fail. Any idea anyone ? -- Raz Long Live the Penguin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of