On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Laurent Laborde <kerdezixe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW, if you have any idea to improve IO performance, i'll happily
>> read it. We're 100% IO bound.
>
> At the risk of stating the obvious, you want to make sure you have
> high quality RAID adapters with large battery backed cache configured
> to write-back.
Not sure how "high quality" the 3ware is.
/c0 Driver Version = 2.26.08.004-2.6.18
/c0 Model = 9690SA-8I
/c0 Available Memory = 448MB
/c0 Firmware Version = FH9X 4.04.00.002
/c0 Bios Version = BE9X 4.01.00.010
/c0 Boot Loader Version = BL9X 3.08.00.001
/c0 Serial Number = L340501A7360026
/c0 PCB Version = Rev 041
/c0 PCHIP Version = 2.00
/c0 ACHIP Version = 1501290C
/c0 Controller Phys = 8
/c0 Connections = 8 of 128
/c0 Drives = 8 of 128
/c0 Units = 3 of 128
/c0 Active Drives = 8 of 128
/c0 Active Units = 3 of 32
/c0 Max Drives Per Unit = 32
/c0 Total Optimal Units = 2
/c0 Not Optimal Units = 1
/c0 Disk Spinup Policy = 1
/c0 Spinup Stagger Time Policy (sec) = 1
/c0 Auto-Carving Policy = off
/c0 Auto-Carving Size = 2048 GB
/c0 Auto-Rebuild Policy = on
/c0 Controller Bus Type = PCIe
/c0 Controller Bus Width = 8 lanes
/c0 Controller Bus Speed = 2.5 Gbps/lane
> If you haven't already done so, you might want to try
> elevator=deadline.
That's what we use.
Also tried "noop" scheduler without signifiant performance change.
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ker2x
