Stewart Williams wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> Stewart Williams wrote:
>>> I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed
>>> CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it.
>>>
>>> It has the following spec:
>>>
>>> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz
>>> 4GB ECC memory
>>> 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s
>>>
>>> Onboard RAID controller is enabled but at the moment I have used mdadm
>>> to configure the array.
>>>
>>> RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller
>>>
>> that is essentially desktop grade disk IO
>>
>>
>>> For a simple striped array I ran:
>>>
>>> # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
>>> # mke2fs -j /dev/md0
>>> # mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt
>>>
>>> Attached are the results of 2 bonnie++ tests I made to test the
>>> performance:
>>>
>>> # bonnie++ -s 256m -d /mnt -u 0 -r 0
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> # bonnie++ -s 1g -d /mnt -u 0 -r 0
>>>
>>> I also tried 3 of the drives in a RAID 5 setup with gave similar results.
>>>
>>> Is it me or are the results poor?
>>>
>>> Is this the best I can expect from the hardware or is something wrong?
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any advice or possible tweaks I can make to the
>>> system to make the performance better.
>>>
>>> The block I/O is the thing that concerns me as mostly I am serving a
>>> 650MB file via samba to 5 clients and I think this is where I need the
>>> speed.
>> is this a sequential or random access application thats using this
>> file? is it read only/mostly, or is it random update?
>
> I'm not sure, how can I find this out?
>
>> its rather hard to read your bonnie output logs as they aren't very
>> columnar. but it appears the sequetial read speed at least is really high.
>>
>> i'm seeing 55MB/sec random(block) and 1.4GB/sec sequential reads on the
>> 1GB file,
>
> Correct.
>
>> so I dunno what your issues are... of course, a 1GB file
>> sits entirely in the system cache assuming a reasonable amount of
>> otherwise idle memory
>
> I'm not sure whether the performance would suffice as I've not tried
> putting it in production.
>
> I am going to benchmark the old server (currently in production) that
> this is replacing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stewart
I've ran the same bonnie++ test on my old server using a 1GB file.
The machine has only 1GB ram and 2 IDE ATA100 hard disks in a RAID 1
mirror on seperate IDE channels on the motherboard.
I got about 38MB/s write w/ 13% CPU and 80MB/s read w/ 97% CPU. Also if
I watch `top` with only one user, and run a quick-report in quickbooks
on a stock item, the iowait is about 50% and the cached ram fills to
around 200-300MB. So with 5 users I expect it that to go up quite
dramatically.
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