On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:29:42AM +0400, Andrey wrote: > Ok. Here are bonnie results on fresh installed Debian with 200GB > FREE ext3 /home partitition (4 disks in RAID5 on HP Proliant DL380 > G4 server): > > Version 1.96 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- > Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- > --Block-- --Seeks-- > Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec > %CP /sec %CP > debian 2G 243 97 22555 10 8794 2 1810 97 120444 > 11 317.0 5 > Latency 135ms 967ms 723ms 26526us 13143us > 586ms > > Latency is also very bad according results. What is the reason? > Hardware or ext3 itseld? Will try with xfs an ext4 and compare then. Ext4 will do better than ext3; but I can predict to you up front that xfs will do better than ext4, because it is better optimized for RAID arrays at the moment. Ext4 has superblock fields to store RAID 5 parameters, but the code to fully take advantage of those RAID parameters is not fully implemented. You should also take a look at your RAID parameters. If your RAID stripe size is too large, it will impact workloads such as mail servers which typically involve small writes. Have you considered using RAID 10 over RAID 5? It's not as efficient from a space perspective but if you are primarily concerned about throughput and latency, it's the way to go. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
