Re: Poor Software RAID-0 performance with 2.6.14.2

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Lars Roland wrote:
I have created a stripe across two 500Gb disks located on separate IDE
channels using:

mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -c32 -n2 -l0 /dev/hdb /dev/hdd

the performance is awful on both kernel 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.14.2 (even
with hdparm and blockdev tuning), both bonnie++ and hdparm (included
below) shows a single disk operating faster than the stripe:

In looking at this I found something interesting, even though you identified your problem before I was able to use the data for the intended purpose. So other than suggesting that the stripe size is too small, nothing on that, your hardware is the issue.

I have two ATA drives connected, and each has two partitions. The first partition of each is mirrored for reliability with default 64k chunks, and the second is striped, with 512k chunks (I write a lot of 100MB files to this f/s).

Reading the individual devices with dd, I saw a transfer rate of about 60MB/s, while the striped md1 device gave just under 120MB/s. (60.3573 and 119.6458) actually. However, the mirrored md0 also gave just 60MB/s read speed.

One of the advantages of mirroring is that if there is heavy read load when one drive is busy there is another copy of the data on the other drive(s). But doing 1MB reads on the mirrored device did not show that the kernel took advantage of this in any way. In fact, it looks as if all the reads are going to the first device, even with multiple processes running. Does the md code now set "write-mostly" by default and only go to the redundant drives if the first fails?

I won't be able to do a lot of testing until Thursday, or perhaps Wednesday night, but that is not as I expected and not what I want, I do mirroring on web and news servers to spread the head motion, now I will be looking at the stats to see if that's happening.

I added the raid M/L to the addresses, since this is getting to be general RAID question.

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