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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3ware disk latency?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:37:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153946249.13509.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607260942110.22242@twinlark.arctic.org>

Ar Mer, 2006-07-26 am 09:52 -0700, ysgrifennodd dean gaudet:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> 
> > 	Does anybody experience the similar latency problems with
> > 3ware 95xx controllers? Thanks,
> 
> i think the 95xx is really bad at sharing its cache fairly amongst 
> multiple devices... i have a 9550sx-8lp with 3 exported units: a raid1, a 
> raid10 and a jbod.  i was zeroing the jbod with dd and it absolutely 
> destroyed the latency of the other two units.

Even on the older 3ware I found it neccessary to bump up the queue sizes
for the 3ware. There's a thread from about 6 months ago (maybe a bit
more) with Jeff Merkey included where it made a huge difference to his
performance playing with the parameters. Might be worth a scan through
the archive.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-26 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-10 14:13 Jan Kasprzak
2006-07-26 16:52 ` dean gaudet
2006-07-26 20:37   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-26 21:53     ` dean gaudet
2006-07-26 22:07       ` adam radford
2006-07-26 22:10         ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-26 22:48         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-07-26 22:20           ` adam radford
2006-07-27  3:00         ` dean gaudet
2006-07-27 13:42           ` Jan Kasprzak
2006-07-27 12:11       ` Jan Kasprzak
2006-07-27 18:30         ` David Lang
2006-08-02 11:48 Dieter Stüken

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