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