From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 04:15:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2BA16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 04:15:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E7B43D2D for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 04:15:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A092F12B13E; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:15:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25844-01; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 04:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-186-245.eastlink.ca [24.224.186.245]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D1C12B128; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:15:38 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FADB36FE0; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:15:35 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC6F36F6E; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:15:35 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:15:35 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Olivier Nicole In-Reply-To: <20050208234602.M94338@ganymede.hub.org> Message-ID: <20050209001254.G94338@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050208231208.B94338@ganymede.hub.org> <20050208234602.M94338@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Subject: Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:15:40 -0000 Self-followup .. the server config is as follows ... did I do maybe mis-configure the array? # Vinum configuration of neptune.hub.org, saved at Wed Feb 9 00:13:52 2005 drive d0 device /dev/da1s1a drive d1 device /dev/da2s1a drive d2 device /dev/da3s1a drive d3 device /dev/da4s1a volume vm plex name vm.p0 org raid5 1024s vol vm sd name vm.p0.s0 drive d0 plex vm.p0 len 142314496s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 0s sd name vm.p0.s1 drive d1 plex vm.p0 len 142314496s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 1024s sd name vm.p0.s2 drive d2 plex vm.p0 len 142314496s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 2048s sd name vm.p0.s3 drive d3 plex vm.p0 len 142314496s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 3072s bassed on an initial config file that looks like: neptune# cat /root/raid5 drive d0 device /dev/da1s1a drive d1 device /dev/da2s1a drive d2 device /dev/da3s1a drive d3 device /dev/da4s1a volume vm plex org raid5 512k sd length 0 drive d0 sd length 0 drive d1 sd length 0 drive d2 sd length 0 drive d3 On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I have a Dual-Xeon server with 4G of RAM, with its primary file system > consisting of 4x73G SCSI drives running RAID5 using vinum ... the operating > system is currently FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #1: Fri Oct 22 15:06:55 ADT 2004 ... > swap usage is 0% (6149) ... and it performs worse then any of my other > servers, and I have less running on it then the other servers ... > > I also have HTT disabled on this server ... and softupdates enabled on the > file system ... > > That said ... am I hitting limits of software raid or is there something I > should be looking at as far as performance is concerned? Maybe something I > have misconfigured? > > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote: > >>> and it performs worse then any of >>> my other servers, and I have less running on it then the other servers ... >> >> What are you other servers? What RAID system/level? > > All servers run RAID5 .. only one other is using vinum, the other 3 are using > hardware RAID controllers ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664