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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706181113050.12717@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Brendan Conoboy <blc@...hat.com>
cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: limits on raid

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Brendan Conoboy wrote:

> david@...g.hm wrote:
>>  I plan to test the different configurations.
>>
>>  however, if I was saturating the bus with the reconstruct how can I fire
>>  off a dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test and get ~45M/sec whild only slowing the
>>  reconstruct to ~4M/sec?
>>
>>  I'm putting 10x as much data through the bus at that point, it would seem
>>  to proove that it's not the bus that's saturated.
>
> I am unconvinced.  If you take ~1MB/s for each active drive, add in SCSI 
> overhead, 45M/sec seems reasonable.  Have you look at a running iostat while 
> all this is going on?  Try it out- add up the kb/s from each drive and see 
> how close you are to your maximum theoretical IO.

I didn't try iostat, I did look at vmstat, and there the numbers look even 
worse, the bo column is ~500 for the resync by itself, but with the DD 
it's ~50,000. when I get access to the box again I'll try iostat to get 
more details

> Also, how's your CPU utilization?

~30% of one cpu for the raid 6 thread, ~5% of one cpu for the resync 
thread

David Lang
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