Unfortunately, they don't want me to spend time doing this sort of
thing, so I'm out of luck.
They're going to stick with 2.6.8-smp, which seems to give the best
performance (which rules out your second case below, I suppose).
:|
Max.
Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:35:31PM +0800, Max Waterman wrote:
Hi,
I've been referred to this list from the linux-raid list.
I've been playing with a RAID system, trying to obtain best bandwidth
from it.
I've noticed that I consistently get better (read) numbers from kernel 2.6.8
than from later kernels.
For example, I get 135MB/s on 2.6.8, but I typically get ~90MB/s on later
kernels.
I'm using this :
<http://www.sharcnet.ca/~hahn/iorate.c>
to measure the iorate. I'm using the debian distribution. The h/w is a
MegaRAID
320-2. The array I'm measuring is a RAID0 of 4 Fujitsu Max3073NC 15Krpm
drives.
The later kernels I've been using are :
2.6.12-1-686-smp
2.6.14-2-686-smp
2.6.15-1-686-smp
The kernel which gives us the best results is :
2.6.8-2-386
(note that it's not an smp kernel)
I'm testing on an otherwise idle system.
Any ideas to why this might be? Any other advice/help?
You should try to narrow the problem a bit down.
Possible causes are:
- kernel regression between 2.6.8 and 2.6.12
- SMP <-> !SMP support
- patches and/or configuration changes in the Debian kernels
You should try self-compiled unmodified 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 ftp.kernel.org
kernels with the same .config (modulo differences by "make oldconfig").
After this test, you know whether you are in the first case.
If yes, you could do a bisect search for finding the point where the
regression started.
Thanks!
Max.
cu
Adrian
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