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Re: bored and setting up a 3/4tb array at the office.



On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:31:16PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> 
> Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
>                     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
> Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
> mike             1G 25926  89 113641  36 29163   7 30287  96 49783   4 507.5   0
>                     ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
>                     -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
>               files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP /sec %CP
>                  16  2830  91 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  3093  99 +++++ +++ 9060 100
> mike,1G,25926,89,113641,36,29163,7,30287,96,49783,4,507.5,0,16,2830,91,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,3093,99,+++++,+++,9060,100
> 
> /dev/sda1            979919788     32828 930863812   1% /space
> 
> P4 2.53, 512 meg ram, ASUS P4B533 motherboard.
> 
> 4 x 250 gig Maxtor DiamondMax 16(5400rpm), in raid 0, on a 3ware 7500-4,
> 2.4.20 kernel.
> 
> Seems pretty reasonable speeds to me.
> 
> And hdparm, for those who still believe in it being meaningful:
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.34 seconds =376.47 MB/sec

Yep a P4 has good memory IO.

>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.43 seconds = 44.76 MB/sec

I have seen better speeds on single disks than that.  That card should
be able to pull off much better numbers than that, although perhaps with
those slow poke drives it can't.

> Off to change this to a raid5 instead now(which is how this is being
> implemented)

Makes sense.



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