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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:23:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Justin Piszcz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Software RAID5 Horrible Write Speed On 3ware Controller!!
I recently got a chance to test SW RAID5 using 750GB disks (10) in a RAID5 on a
3ware card, model no: 9550SXU-12
The bottom line is the controller is doing some weird caching with writes on SW
RAID5 which makes it not worth using.
Recall, with SW RAID5 using regular SATA cards with (mind you) 10 raptors:
write: 464MB/s
read: 627MB/s
Yes, these drives are different, 7200RPM 750GB drives, but write should not be
50-102MB/s as shown below.
First, lets test RAW performance of these 10 drives:
Create RAID 0 with 10 750GB Drives:
# mdadm /dev/md0 --create --level=0 -n 10 /dev/sd[bcdefghjik]1
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
--> XFS: (xfs default options, no optimizations)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 22.459 seconds, 478 MB/s
# dd if=10gb of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 28.7843 seconds, 373 MB/s
--> XFS: (xfs default options, enabled md-raid read optimizations)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 22.9623 seconds, 468 MB/s
# dd if=10gb of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 17.7328 seconds, 606 MB/s
Software RAID 5 on a real HW raid controller over 10 750GB disks JBOD:
UltraDense-AS-3ware-R5-9-disks,16G,50676,89,96019,34,46379,9,60267,99,501098,56,248.5,0,16:100000:16/64,240,3,21959,84,1109,10,286,4,22923,91,544,6
UltraDense-AS-3ware-R5-9-disks,16G,49983,88,96902,37,47951,10,59002,99,529121,60,210.3,0,16:100000:16/64,250,3,25506,98,1163,10,268,3,18003,71,772,8
UltraDense-AS-3ware-R5-9-disks,16G,49811,87,95759,35,48214,10,60153,99,538559,61,276.8,0,16:100000:16/64,233,3,25514,97,1100,9,279,3,21398,84,839,9
Write seems significantly impacted, where read is fine, the HW RAID controller
cache must be doing something strange:
--> XFS SW RAID 5: (xfs noatime only, enabled md-raid read optimizations)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 105.178 seconds, 102 MB/s
# dd if=10gb of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 17.4893 seconds, 614 MB/s
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I am sure one of your questions is, well, why use SW RAID5 on the controller?
Because SW RAID5 is usually much faster than HW RAID5, at least in my tests:
Ctl Model Ports Drives Units NotOpt RRate VRate BBU
------------------------------------------------------------------------
c0 9550SXU-12 12 12 3 0 1 4 -
Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVerify IgnECC
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0 RAID-1 OK - - 698.481 ON ON OFF
u1 RAID-5 OK - 64K 5587.85 ON OFF OFF
u2 SPARE OK - - 698.629 - OFF -
--> XFS:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 74.5648 seconds, 144 MB/s
--> JFS:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=10gb bs=1M count=10240
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 108.631 seconds, 98.8 MB/s
The controller is set to performance, and this is nothing close to performance.
In RAID0, the controller is ok with the disks JBOD, but I cannot recommend
buying a controller (12,16,24 port) for Linux SW RAID 5.
Its too bad that there are no regular > 4 port SATA PCI-e controllers out
there.
Justin.
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