On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:18:27PM +0100, stephen mulcahy wrote: > I'm not sure what else people read from bonnie++ results but I normally
I realize people mostly prefer IOZone, or similar. > focus on the sequential output block (which I think of as "block write > speed" and sequential input block (which I think of as "block read > speed"). Smarter folk on this list may be able to provide a more > scientific analysis of your results than that though. > > In your case, I'm reading the results below as a block write speed of > 455 MB/sec and a block read speed of 528 MB/sec which seems pretty good Thanks, this was the kind of comment I was looking for. The raw aggregate disk speed is roughly 770 MB/sec, so this result is not all that bad. This is Linux md RAID 10, CentOS 5.3 [ora...@localhost data]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid10] md4 : active raid10 sdp[13] sdo[12] sdn[11] sdm[10] sdl[9] sdk[8] sdj[7] sdi[6] sdh[5] sdg[4] sdf[3] sde[2] sdd[1] sdc[0] 13674601472 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [14/14] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUU] unused devices: <none> [ora...@localhost data]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-128.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 11:12:42 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Dual-socket Nehalem E5520 @ 2.27GHz, 24 GByte RAM. > to me (unless my math has failed me). What kind of performance are you > expecting? I expected slightly more, but this is adequate. Thanks again! -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf