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Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:05:24 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: performance problem with gstripe
Message-ID:  <gk1664$g6d$2@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AD370A6-2226-442F-BD80-8CFD4045B094@panasas.com>
References:  <4AD370A6-2226-442F-BD80-8CFD4045B094@panasas.com>

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Joel Jacobson wrote:
> i have a bit of a weird issue, which i suspect is a configuration
> problem, and was looking for a little advice.  i have an LSI JBOD box
> with a bunch of SAS drives that i would like to gstripe together.  each=

> drive individually seems to be able to do about 80 MB/sec streaming
> write, and doing parallel dd's gives me the 160 MB/sec i would expect. =

> if i gstripe them together with a 256k stripe width, i only see 80
> MB/sec, though.

How do you measure this? If with dd, what block size (bs) do you use?

>=20
> if, however, i newfs/mount it as ufs and then dd myself a big file, tha=
t
> gets me about 120-130 MB/sec.
>=20
> why does mounting matter?

I'd guess because of write caching that enables you to make use of
multiple stripes at once, if your dd bs is smaller than 2*stripe size.


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