On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Maurice Volaski wrote:
the RAID drives are formatted as ext3. The benchmark command is dd
if=/dev/zero of=output oflag=sync bs=100M count=1
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My root is organized has a /maurice directory and a /maurice/drbd directory
and initially I had changed to that directory to run the benchmark. In here,
the speeds were slow, averaging about 40 MB/second.
When I happened to run it from /, I suddenly began getting about 70
MB/second. So in some bizarre fashion, the location to where the output of dd
is directed to dramatically impacts the performance. I have run from other
directories and the performance varies depending on which directory I'm in.
Strange indeed. Only thing that comes to mind is: you're specifying the
output file not as an absolute path, but relative: the directories (and
its contents) are distributed all over the disk: some may "live" in the
inner part of the plattern, some in the outer part - and different areas
have different speeds. I've never encountered this and I could be dead
wrong, but I'd suggest to specify the same 'of=/path/to/output' - I
could imagine that it's more likely that for the next benchmark the
filesystem uses the same on-disk location...no?
Christian.
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