[CentOS] Tyan Thunder K8SE S2892 Report

[Kirk Bocek]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Or consider RAID-10.  Send some benchmarks of that.  ;->

Here are the Raid-10 benchmarks. Three instances of Setiathome were running during
the benchmark.

Bonnie++ 1.03a      ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
Tyan        50G:16k 44842  89 79313  35 44383  12 44677  77 111266  13  94.5   0
Tyan        50G:16k 44597  89 77035  35 44487  12 44644  77 111081  13  94.1   0
Tyan        50G:16k 42774  85 77262  34 44663  12 44891  77 111075  13  94.6   0
Tyan        50G:64k 42994  86 76934  34 43913  12 44790  77 110579  13  79.5   0
Tyan        50G:64k 43919  88 76894  34 44073  12 44879  77 110929  13  78.6   0
Tyan        50G:64k 43699  87 76476  34 44436  12 44902  77 110922  13  79.0   0
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
files:max:min        /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
Tyan             16  2420  89 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2511  97 +++++ +++  8720  99
Tyan             16  2490  97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2261  97 +++++ +++  8742  99
Tyan             16  2475  97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2695  97 +++++ +++  8594  99
Tyan             16  2500  96 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2183  80 +++++ +++  8287  98
Tyan             16  2429  97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2519  97 +++++ +++  8166  98
Tyan             16  2404  97 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2399  91 +++++ +++  8657  99

A bit over half the write speeds of Raid-0. Big surprise. Seems like this is the best
combination of performance and reliability.

Kirk Bocek