Hi Stan,
You're welcome. Eventually you get to the bottom of this.
I think this moment has arrived :)
I did some fio tests from all levels, raw disk, raw md device, raw LV,
filesystem (ext4) on top of LV. All read and write tests came back with
+- 120MB/s (mostly 128, but let's tone it down just for stats)
I did a read,write and mixed test against the NAS:
The read and write tests came back at 60MB/s, the mixed came in at 11MB/s.
I ran a network test from my desktop to the server, using iperf and it
got up to 80MB/s, add to that the sync traffic of 10-15MB and you have a
pretty full gig pipe. The desktop nic is a crappy onboard one, so I am
quite happy with those stats. Just "FYI" - they are all linked with a
Cisco 3750G, the NAS has 2xgig ports in an etherchannel
This leaves me only two conclusions:
1) pvmove isn't as fast as I think - it might be due to some checksums
or some other process (I know it creates a small mirror of a PE and then
breaks it - rinse repeat for all PEs)
2) That is just the limit for this system, "it is what it is"
Either way - I think I have taken up enough of the list time, so thank
you very much for the in-depth answers ! I still have access to the NAS
until at least 13/01/2014 if you want to do more checks/tests.
Have a good 2014!
Cheers,
Pieter
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