extremely slow write performance plaintext

[Cory Coager]

On 01/25/2011 04:48 AM, Mathieu AVILA wrote
>> You're getting 40MB/s write speed and says that's fine? I get more
>> performance from a single SATA desktop drive. Your setup seems to suck
>> extremely somewhere.
>>
>> It already starts with your dd speed. I started it on a virtualized VM
>> on an old, overloaded server and get:
>>
>> # dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1k count=1M
>> 1048576+0 Datensätze ein
>> 1048576+0 Datensätze aus
>> 1073741824 Bytes (1,1 GB) kopiert, 10,9992 s, 97,6 MB/s
>>
>
> I would say this is melted with cache hit, isn't it ? (although I 
> agree it depends on the server's memory dedicated to FS cache)
>
> A real cache hit on a real server would give me at least 500 MB/s 
> (actually I get something around 1 GB/s)
> When it starts to be disk-constrained, on a standard SATA disk, I get 
> from 75 MB/s to 140 MB/s depending on the position of the AG I hit.
I agree, it should be a lot faster even on the LV's that are functioning 
fine.  The disk arrays and disks are new but the rest of the hardware is 
pretty old, that might be part of the problem.  It is a ProLiant DL385 G1.



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