On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:15:26PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > dean gaudet wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > > dean gaudet wrote: > > > > > oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i "dd > > > > > if=/dev/sdX > > > > > of=/dev/null" and i'm seeing 74MB/s+ from each disk on this simple read > > > > > test. > > > > > > > > > > for lack of a better test i started an untar/diff stress test on the > > > > > disks... we'll see how it goes. (it's based on doug ledford's > > > > > memtest.sh) > > > > Thanks for the testing. Looks like we might have hit on something good... > > > > > > yep this does look good. no problems overnight in the untar/diff/rm > > > workload. if you've got any other workload you'd like me to throw at it, > > > let me know. i might be able to scare up a disk or two with errors to check > > > error handling. > > > > Nothing specific. I usually just throw various workloads at it, both > > throughput-intensive, seek-intensive, multiple threads at the same time, > > stressing multiple disks at the same time, etc. > > yeah the untar/diff/rm workload is seek/thread intensive. > > > > I presume from your past messages your tests include multiple disks at the > > same time? > > yep, 4 disks... i was getting 4x74MB/s with dd read. unfortunately i > don't have more disks in the system at this point so i can't test all 8 > ports at full tilt. > > each disk had its own XFS filesystem. > Hi! What brand/model your sata_mv controller is? Would be nice to know to be able to get a "known-to-work" one.. -- Pasi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
