I have a multi-core Q6600 CPU on a 10-disk Raptor RAID 5 running XFS.
I just pulled down the Debian Etch 4.0 DVD ISO's, one for x86 and one for
x86_64, when I ran md5sum -c MD5SUMS, I see ~280-320MB/s. When I ran the
second one I see upwards of what I should be seeing 500-520MB/s.
NOTE:: These MD5 contain the 3 DVD ISO's for each platform, 6 total ISOs.
I know md5sum is cpubound to a degree, do you think that is what is
happening here? Each core can only sustain ~300MB/s and then with two of
four cores working, it can exceed that amount or is there some similarity
with RAID1 in linux compared to RAID5?
With RAID1, if you use a single read thread, you will get 60-70MB/s read
on a dual raptor raid1. If you use two(?) or three threads, it will read
from both disks and you will see 120-140MB/s.
Is there some commonality with software RAID1 and RAID5 in Linux in this
regard?
$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 128 46344 648 6702340 0 0 357 418 21 1 1 1 99 0
1 0 128 48476 648 6700664 0 0 294912 0 3862 1505 20 10 71 0
1 0 128 46144 648 6703448 0 0 327680 0 3951 1815 20 10 70 0
1 0 128 47280 648 6704488 0 0 295632 92 3747 1937 20 8 72 1
< kicked off the next md5sum -c >
1 1 128 47956 644 6704156 0 0 423256 128 4730 2149 22 11 62 5
2 0 128 47684 492 6705700 0 0 491520 0 5598 2484 31 12 48 9
1 1 128 46412 492 6708432 0 0 524288 41008 5648 6541 31 16 45 8
2 0 128 48136 492 6706840 0 0 491520 0 5730 2606 29 13 47 11
1 1 128 46464 492 6708432 0 0 491520 17 5571 2597 30 12 48 10
2 0 128 47512 492 6709392 0 0 524288 0 5751 2875 32 12 48 8
2 0 128 47076 304 6711152 0 0 524288 0 5671 2677 31 13 49 7
3 0 128 48000 304 6706512 0 0 356388 12 4475 2097 22 10 50 19
2 0 128 47656 304 6713716 0 0 495580 48 5726 2452 30 13 47 9
2 0 128 47676 304 6713852 0 0 524468 32 5768 2739 31 13 48 8
Thoughts?
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