On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 05:14, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:29:23PM +0100, Antonello Piemonte wrote:
> > the question is: for performance, is it better a raid 1 or a
> > raid 0+1 configuration? is the above load (number of files written
> > per second) a realistic goal to attain with a SCSI based uniprocessor PIII
> > 800MHZ with ext3 file system (this I will tackle separately, perhaps
> > will use ext2 to increase performance) and 1 Gig of RAM?
>
> On a dual PIII-550 with 512 MB of memory, ext3, and a RAID-0+1 (four 40G
> 7200rpm IBM IDE Deathstar disks, 64k chunk-size on the RAID-0), I get:
>
> $ time for i in {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; do mkdir $i; for j in
> {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=$j/$i
> bs=1k count=4; done done
>
> real 0m5.024s
>
My systems are very different than what you describe above but here are
some data points for reference. BTW, should that not be "of=$i/$j"?
For a Dual P3/1.4Gig with 3x10000rpm SCSI drives running software raid5
and ext3 on a 2.4.18 (Redhat 7.3 2.4.18-17.7) kernel:
real 0m2.217s
For a P3/1Gig with 2x10000rpm SCSI drive running software raid1 and ext3
on a stock 2.4.18 kernel:
real 0m3.349s
Stephen
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