Subject: Re: RAIDframe works fine, but I'm wondering...
To: Anders Dinsen <anders@dinsen.net>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/24/2000 23:46:49
Anders Dinsen writes:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Anders Dinsen wrote:
> > See you on the other side of this adventure :-) (my /home and most other
> > user files are on the new disk).
> 
> I'm there now, running RAID 0 on three identical disks! :-) Performance is
> not as good as I had hoped, but that is not RAIDframe's fault, but my old
> DEC disks. Here's bonnie output:
> 
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random
> --
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks-
> --
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %C
> PU
>            64   670 41.2   925 18.8   564 23.0  1075 97.5  1378 43.0  34.5 12
> .3
> 
> I have'nt got a 'before' listing, so for comparison, this is a 1.2 G
> HP3724 disk:
> 
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random
> --
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks-
> --
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %C
> PU
>            64  1117 93.5  1517 45.6   818 42.0  1157 94.8  1936 60.9  41.8  8
> .7
> 
> :-) it's actually faster...

What does your raid config file look like?  It could be that there is some 
room for tweaking the performance a bit :)

Later...

Greg Oster