Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756799AbYGGSqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:46:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754698AbYGGSqa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:46:30 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:38105 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754008AbYGGSqa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:46:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:46:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com cc: Alan Piszcz Subject: Re: 12 Veliciraptors again w/x4 card (1.1gbytes/sec aggregate read)! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2236 Lines: 68 On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> Each PCI-e x1 card has 1 veliciraptor on it now. >> Got an x4 card wit 4 sata ports: >> >> Not quite the > 1 gbyte/sec I was hoping for in regards to the reads >> but pretty close! > > Going to remove one of the drives from the x1 card and put it on the x4 > card instead, then I will use all 4 SATA ports on the x4 and hopefully get > better bw. > Four drives on the x4 card, MAX bandwidth for every disk. p34:~# dd if=/dev/sdi of=/dev/null bs=1M & [1] 4720 p34:~# dd if=/dev/sdj of=/dev/null bs=1M & [2] 4721 p34:~# dd if=/dev/sdk of=/dev/null bs=1M & [3] 4722 p34:~# dd if=/dev/sdl of=/dev/null bs=1M & [4] 4723 p34:~# 120MiB/s per each one! Re-running dd test with all 12 disks: 1.1 gigabytes per second read! r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 120 59104 6632220 52228 0 0 0 40 168 517 0 0 100 0 0 0 120 59104 6632220 52228 0 0 0 0 20 291 0 0 100 0 3 10 120 43516 6635576 51924 0 0 1051776 62 4221 12301 1 70 11 19 6 9 160 44420 6634720 51788 0 0 1117284 0 4435 12308 1 75 5 19 6 9 160 47436 6631100 51676 0 0 1110300 0 4449 11438 1 76 3 20 2 10 160 46740 6632048 51948 0 0 1137920 0 4447 12251 1 75 8 17 9 7 160 45248 6632056 52004 0 8 1127940 45 4559 13259 1 74 9 17 3 9 160 44152 6634780 49960 0 0 1132032 12 4471 12962 0 75 8 16 4 9 160 44160 6634960 49380 0 0 1129216 8 4430 12545 0 76 7 16 After: About the same for write: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile.1 bs=1M count=10240 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 20.4056 s, 526 MB/s 'nuff said for read :) $ dd if=bigfile.1 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 10.2841 s, 1.0 GB/s Justin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/