Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:23:17 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jaime Medrano <> | Subject | raid1 performance |
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I have several raid arrays (level 0 and 1) in my machine and I have noticed that raid1 is much more slower than I expected.
The arrays are made from two equal hds (/dev/hde, /dev/hdg). And some numbers about the read performances are:
/dev/hde: 29 Mb/s /dev/hdg: 29 Mb/s /dev/md0: 27 Mb/s (raid1) /dev/md1: 56 Mb/s (raid0) /dev/md2: 27 Mb/s (raid1)
These numbers comes from hdparm -tT. I have noticed a very poor performance when reading sequentially a large file from raid1 (I suppose this is what hdparm does).
I have taken a look at the read balancing code at raid1.c and I have found that when a sequential read happens no balancing is done, and so all the reading is done from only one of the mirrors while the others are iddle.ç
I have tried to modify the balancing algorithm in order to balance also sequential access, but I have got almost the same numbers.
I have thought that the reason may be that some layer bellow is making reads of greater size than the chunks in which I balance, and so the same work is being done twice; but I don't know the way to find this.
Does anybody know how this works?
Regards, Jaime Medrano
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