Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-03-05 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm kind of a noob when it comes to setting up RAID controllers and tweaking > them so I need some advice here. > > I'm just about to setup my newly rented DELL R720 12. gen server. It's > running a single Intel Xeon E5-

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-20 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 20.2.2014 02:47, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> On 19.2.2014 19:09, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >>> Right now I'm testing on a machine with 2x Intel E5-2690s >>> (http://ark.intel.com/products/64596/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2690-20m-cache-2_90-ghz-8_00

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-20 Thread KONDO Mitsumasa
Hi, (2014/02/20 9:13), Tomas Vondra wrote: Hi, On 19.2.2014 03:45, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: (2014/02/19 5:41), Tomas Vondra wrote: On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: Hi, I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to know raid striping/chunk size or read/write ca

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 19.2.2014 19:09, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> Right now I'm testing on a machine with 2x Intel E5-2690s >> (http://ark.intel.com/products/64596/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2690-20m-cache-2_90-ghz-8_00-gts-intel-qpi) >> 512GB RAM and 6x600GB Intel S

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 19.2.2014 19:09, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > You can also do the old trick of underprovisioning and / or > underutilizing all the space on SSDs. I.e. put 10 600GB SSDs under a > HW RAID controller in RAID-10, then only parititon out 1/2 the storage > you get from that. so you get 1.5TB os storage

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 19.2.2014 16:13, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to >>> know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ratio in >>> wri

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: >>> On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: Hi, I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would l

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Tomas Vondra
Hi, On 19.2.2014 03:45, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: > (2014/02/19 5:41), Tomas Vondra wrote: >> On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to >>> know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ratio in >>> writeback-ca

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to >>> know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ra

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to >> know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ratio in >> writeback-cache setting is the best. I'd like to know

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-18 Thread KONDO Mitsumasa
(2014/02/19 5:41), Tomas Vondra wrote: On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: Hi, I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ratio in writeback-cache setting is the best. I'd like to know it, too:) The stripe size

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-18 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 18.2.2014 02:23, KONDO Mitsumasa wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to > know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ratio in > writeback-cache setting is the best. I'd like to know it, too:) We do have dozens of H710 controllers, but not w

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:29:10PM +0100, DFE wrote: 2xSSD (MLC) Raid1 for Operating System (CentOS 6.4) 4xSSD (SLC) Raid10 for WAL archive and a dedicated "fast tablespace", where we have most UPDATE actions (+ Hot spare). 10xHDD 15kRPM Raid5 for "default tablespace" (optimized for space, instea

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm kind of a noob when it comes to setting up RAID controllers and tweaking > them so I need some advice here. > > I'm just about to setup my newly rented DELL R720 12. gen server. It's > running a single Intel Xeon E5-262

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-17 Thread KONDO Mitsumasa
Hi, I don't have PERC H710 raid controller, but I think he would like to know raid striping/chunk size or read/write cache ratio in writeback-cache setting is the best. I'd like to know it, too:) Regards, -- Mitsumasa KONDO NTT Open Source Software Center (2014/02/18 0:54), Tomas Vondra wrot

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
The thing is, it's difficult to transfer these experiences without clear idea of the workloads. For example I wouldn't say 200 updates / second is a write-heavy workload. A single 15k drive should handle that just fine, assuming the data fit into RAM (which seems to be the case, but maybe I got th

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 17 Únor 2014, 16:03, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote: > Hi, > > I’m kind of a noob when it comes to setting up RAID controllers and > tweaking them so I need some advice here. > > I’m just about to setup my newly rented DELL R720 12. gen server. It’s > running a single Intel Xeon E5-2620 v.2 proces

Re: [PERFORM] Optimal settings for RAID controller - optimized for writes

2014-02-17 Thread DFE
Hi, I configured a similar architecture some months ago and this is the best choice after some pgbench and Bonnie++ tests. Server: DELL R720d CPU: dual Xeon 8-core RAM: 32GB ECC Controller PERC H710 Disks: 2xSSD (MLC) Raid1 for Operating System (CentOS 6.4) 4xSSD (SLC) Raid10 for WAL archive and a