Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:30:32 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Tuning Linux for high-speed disk subsystems |
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> Re: Tuning Linux for high-speed disk subsystems > > As I count your disks may be the double for the best case. I read here on > > LKML a post that someone claims that W2k deliever 250 MB/s with such a > > configuration. Linux 2.4 should do the same. Ask the SCSI gurus. > > That may have been my post you refer to. With 2x5 disks, each capable of > 50 MB/s by itself, we can stream 255 MB/s very smoothly in either direction > with W2K --- as long as FILE_FLAG_NOBUFFER is used. With standard > reads the number is more like 100 MB/s if I recall correctly, so the buffer > cache can definitely get in the way. > > With Linux + XFS I was getting 250 MB/s read and 220 MB/s write (with a > bit less smoothness than W2K) using O_DIRECT and no high mem to avoid > bounce buffer copies. Using standard reads the numbers drop to around > 120 MB/s. That was a couple of weeks ago and I want to try tweaking some > more but a co-worker has "borrowed" pieces of the hardware for the moment.
Jusy FYI, Linus announced that he had returned Andrea's O_DIRECT support to the most recent 2.4.15-pre kernel, so you are no longer restricted to using XFS for no-cache I/O. Whether you will be able to beat XFS for speed using any other filesystem is another question.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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