On 09/28/10 03:08, Stephen Sanders wrote:
I'm trying a disk throughput experiment where in two 3ware raid 6's are
being put into a g_strip raid 0.
The raid 6's are using 8 7200RPM disks. The disk transfer rate is
~80MB/s. Using a load generation tool that is using O_DIRECT for I/O,
I've generated the following short output from iostat. Needless to say,
the write performance is a lot less than I'm expecting.
We've modified the kernel such that our KB/t figure is closer to 512KB/t
per disk when measured without the g_strip. With g_strip turned on, the
KB/t number is more like 60KB/t.
The question is how do I get g_stripe to write larger transactions to
the disk ?
gstripe label -v -s 131072 roadkill /dev/da0 /dev/da2
No pratical way. You have a gstripe array of two drives and with MAXPHYS
of 128 KiB each would in fact see at most 64 KiB transactions. It gets
worse when you add drives.
newfs /dev/stripe/roadkill
Depending on what you are doing, adding "-U" would help you here.
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