Re: H800 + md1200 Performance problem

[Cesar Martin <cmartinp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, setting is the same in both machines.

The results of bonnie++ running without arguments are:

Version      1.96   ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-

                    -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

cltbbdd01      126G    94  99 202873  99 208327  95  1639  91 819392  88  2131 139

Latency             88144us     228ms     338ms     171ms     147ms   20325us

                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------

                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--

files:max:min        /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP

cltbbdd01        16  8063  26 +++++ +++ 27361  96 31437  96 +++++ +++ +++++ +++

Latency              7850us    2290us    2310us     530us      11us     522us

With DD, one core of CPU put at 100% and results are  about 100-170 MBps, that I thing is bad result for this HW:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/vol02/bonnie/DD bs=8M count=100

100+0 records in

100+0 records out

838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 8,1822 s, 103 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/vol02/bonnie/DD bs=8M count=1000 conv=fdatasync

1000+0 records in

1000+0 records out

8388608000 bytes (8,4 GB) copied, 50,8388 s, 165 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/vol02/bonnie/DD bs=1M count=1024 conv=fdatasync

1024+0 records in

1024+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 7,39628 s, 145 MB/s

When monitor I/O activity with iostat, during dd, I have noticed that, if the test takes 10 second, the disk have activity only during last 3 or 4 seconds and iostat report about 250-350MBps. Is it normal?

I set read ahead to different values, but the results don't differ substantially...

Thanks!

El 3 de abril de 2012 15:21, Tomas Vondra <tv@xxxxxxxx> escribió:

On 3.4.2012 14:59, Cesar Martin wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Thank you for your fast response.
>
> blockdev --getra /dev/sdc
> 256

That's way too low. Is this setting the same on both machines?

Anyway, set it to 4096, 8192 or even 16384 and check the difference.

BTW explain analyze is nice, but it's only half the info, especially
when the issue is outside PostgreSQL (hw, OS, ...). Please, provide
samples from iostat / vmstat or tools like that.

Tomas

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