Here you can see vmstat during bonnie++ running on i686/ext3/multibus: My Test SAN Disk's on HDS and has RAID6 / 1 x 14Gb LUN vmstat 10 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 160 4048392 9160 24120 0 0 14 33 75 21 0 0 99 0 0 0 160 4048264 9176 24104 0 0 0 6 1022 73 0 0 100 0 2 0 160 2083800 11176 1944024 0 0 21 147243 1672 340 0 33 61 6 -->Writing intelligently 2 0 160 15832 6692 3991588 0 0 0 203957 1730 281 0 42 40 18 2 0 160 16856 6900 3992160 0 0 3 210644 1845 534 0 44 35 20 1 0 160 16280 3896 3999844 0 0 8 190240 1756 530 0 36 27 37 1 1 160 15768 3912 4007368 0 0 10711 94211 1472 426 0 13 52 34 -->Rewriting 0 1 160 16744 3688 4007072 0 0 23499 21111 1269 486 0 4 62 35 0 3 160 15248 1608 4009672 0 0 42230 36842 1456 826 0 6 57 36 0 3 160 15928 1380 4009380 0 0 57532 57172 1667 1095 0 9 53 38 0 3 160 16256 1552 4009468 0 0 64524 62128 1701 1200 0 10 49 41 0 2 160 15744 1440 4009840 0 0 57516 59324 1682 1089 0 10 60 30 0 2 160 16384 1420 4007520 0 0 56010 63978 1656 1069 0 11 57 32 0 2 160 16512 1744 4007196 0 0 50093 54305 1591 1007 0 8 56 35 0 2 160 16128 1680 4009600 0 0 60890 68262 1704 1155 0 10 54 36 0 2 160 15640 1540 4011040 0 0 23447 27152 1284 486 0 4 62 34 0 2 160 15624 1576 4010484 0 0 59322 55898 1645 1119 0 9 56 35 0 2 160 16632 1472 4008508 0 0 59285 55417 1691 1126 0 10 59 31 2 0 160 16440 1436 4009844 0 0 55198 65543 1655 1046 0 9 57 34 0 2 160 16304 1412 4009348 0 0 63486 53479 1716 1194 0 10 59 31 0 2 160 15664 1416 4009344 0 0 64524 63261 1737 1209 0 10 54 35 0 2 160 16288 1408 4009872 0 0 64724 69324 1765 1232 0 10 48 42 0 1 160 15816 1492 4013168 0 0 65955 20070 1605 1209 0 5 69 26 1 0 160 16416 1772 4012888 0 0 91166 3 1727 1599 0 4 74 22 -->Reading intelligently 0 1 160 16200 2080 4013880 0 0 95948 4 1769 1688 0 4 74 22 0 1 160 16840 2268 4014992 0 0 87630 9 1701 1548 0 4 74 22 0 1 160 15816 2300 4018340 0 0 89235 2 1714 1569 0 4 74 22 0 1 160 15624 1812 4022208 0 0 104858 4 1840 1833 0 4 74 22 0 1 160 16840 1904 4024456 0 0 100705 5 1808 1767 0 4 74 21 0 1 160 16264 2296 4027184 0 0 68154 6 1563 1243 0 4 75 22 0 0 160 16904 2600 4028960 0 0 53223 1 1444 984 0 3 79 18 0 3 160 16136 6984 4024576 0 0 2064 150 1334 1386 0 0 81 19 0 0 160 4050056 9084 24196 0 0 2108 406 1355 740 0 5 76 19 0 0 160 4050184 9116 24164 0 0 0 26 1026 72 0 0 100 0 -----Original Message----- From: Bob Gautier [mailto:rgautier@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:29 AM To: von Steiger Thomas, IT-SDL-SEE-HSE-LXE Cc: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx; consult-list@xxxxxxxxxx; nstrug@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [Consult-list] Re: dm-multipath has greatthroughputbut we'd like more! On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 19:21 +0200, Thomas.vonSteiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Interessting Discussion! > > If you are running in a big enterprise SAN then it's possible that > your server shares the HDS Port with 30 other servers. > > I have done > "bonnie++ -d /iotest -s 6g -f -n 0 -u root" on AMD LS20 IBM Blade > 2x2Gb's qla HBA's / 3Gb Mem and "bonnie++ -d /iotest -s 8g -f -n 0 -u > root" on Intel HS20 IBM Blade / 2x2Gb's qla HBA's / 4Gb Mem. > SAN Storage (HDS USP100) with dm-multipath (failover and multibus) for > ext3 and ext2. > OS are RHEL4/U3. > > Results are in the att bonnue1.html > > Defaults from /etc/multipath.conf: > defaults { > udev_dir /dev > polling_interval 10 > selector "round-robin 0" > default_path_grouping_policy multibus > getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n" > prio_callout /bin/true > path_checker readsector0 > rr_min_io 100 > rr_weight priorities > failback immediate > no_path_retry 20 > user_friendly_name yes > } > > Thomas > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Nicholas C. Strugnell > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:43 AM > To: rgautier@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: device-mapper development; consult-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [Consult-list] Re: dm-multipath has > greatthroughput but we'd like more! > > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:04 +0200, Nicholas C. Strugnell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 08:44 +0100, Bob Gautier wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 02:25 -0500, Jonathan E Brassow wrote: > > > > The system bus isn't a limiting factor is it? 64-bit PCI-X will > > > > get > > > > 8.5 GB/s (plenty), but 32-bit PCI 33MHz got 133MB/s. > > > > > > > > Can your disks sustain that much bandwidth? 10 striped drives > > > > might get better than 200MB/s if done right, I suppose. > > > > > > > > > It might make sense to test raw writes to a device with dd and see > > if that gets comparable performance figures - I'll just try that > > myself actually. > > write throughput to EVA 8000 (8GB write cache), host DL380 with > 2x2Gb/s HBAs, 2GB RAM > > testing 4GB files: > > on filesystems: bonnie++ -d /mnt/tmp -s 4g -f -n 0 -u root > > ext3: 129MB/s sd=0.43 > > ext2: 202MB/s sd=21.34 > q > on raw: 216MB/s sd=3.93 (dd if=/dev/zero > of=/dev/mpath/3600508b4001048ba0000b00001400000 bs=4k count=1048576) > > > NB I did not have exclusive access to the SAN or this particular > storage array - this is a big corp. SAN network under quite heavy load > and disk array under moderate load - not even sure if I had exclusive > access to the disks. All values averaged over 20 runs. > > The very low deviation of write speed on ext3 vs. exr2 or raw is > interesting - not sure if it means anything. > > In any case, we don't manage to get very close to the theoretical > throughput of the 2 HBAs, 512MB/s Thanks both of you for the interesting figures. It looks like ext3 is putting a heavier load on a machine than ext2 -- Thomas' CPU load in the ext3 cases is quite high -- so maybe that's keeping throughput limited. On the other hand, I still don't see why, if I can drive *two* HBAs at a total of about 200MB/s, I can only drive *one* at about half that. By the way, when we did our tests, the SAN was quiet lightly loaded, and we were watching its write cache level quite closely to ensure we didn't cause any problems for other users. Bob G > > Nick > > > -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
