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From: Ramon van Alteren <ramon@××××××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:20:52
Message-Id: 43EA276D.8030606@vanalteren.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate by kashani
1 kashani wrote:
2
3 > Having shot my mouth and hoping to extort some sushi the hardware
4 > vs software raid testing should be happening this Sunday. It'll be
5 > like the Super Bowl, but for sysadmin geeks.
6
7 With a weekly growth-rate of 250+Gb and less than 400G left on my
8 storage I don't have that much time to test.
9 However, for the interested:
10
11 Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz
12 2Gb RAM
13
14 1 ATA 40Gb system disk
15 24 465Gb SATA disks
16 2 3ware 9550SX-12MI controllers with 224Mb
17
18 Config:
19 2 RAID-50 arrays of 12 disks each.
20 Glued together in a single LVM volume of 9Tb
21
22 bonnie++ output:
23
24 # sync ; bonnie++ -n 1 -m spinvis -u 0 -s 20480 -f -b -d .
25
26 Version 1.93c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
27 --Random-
28 Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
29 --Seeks--
30 Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
31 /sec %CP
32 spinvis 20G 113481 70 33927 12 80426 12
33 141.6 9
34 Latency 1446ms 1395ms 50994us
35 397ms
36
37
38
39 Version 1.93c ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
40 Create--------
41 spinvis -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
42 -Delete--
43 files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
44 /sec %CP
45 1 93 0 +++++ +++ 96 0 96 0 +++++ +++
46 94 0
47 Latency 410ms 15us 38306us 35176us 9us
48 65892us
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51 Grtz Ramon
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54 To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
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56 Gustave Flaubert
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