[CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Mon Sep 24 17:35:54 UTC 2007
Simon Banton wrote:
>
> At 10:04 -0400 24/9/07, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> >How about trying your benchmarks with the 'disktest' utility from the
> >LTP (Linux Test Project),
>
> Now fetched and installed - I'd be grateful for a suggestion as to an
> appropriate disktest command line for a 4GB RAM twin CPU box with
> 250GB RAID 1 array, because I think you had your tongue in your cheek
> when you said:
>
> >it is also a
> >lot easier to setup and use.
Ok, so maybe it's easy for me... I forget that nothing is easy the first
time using it.
Ok, so here is the command I would use:
Sequential reads:
disktest -B 4k -h 1 -I BD -K 4 -p l -P T -T 300 -r /dev/sdX
Sequential writes:
disktest -B 4k -h 1 -I BD -K 4 -p l -P T -T 300 -w /dev/sdX
Random writes:
disktest -B 4k -h 1 -I BD -K 4 -p r -P T -T 300 -r /dev/sdX
Random writes:
disktest -B 4k -h 1 -I BD -K 4 -p r -P T -T 300 -w /dev/sdX
Description of the options used:
-B 4k = 4k block ios
-h 1 = 1 second heartbeat
-I BD = block device, direct io
-K 4 = 4 threads, or 4 outstanding/overlapping ios, typical pattern
(use -K 1 for the raw performance of single drive, aka dd type output)
-p <l|r> = io type, l=linear, r=random
-P T = output metrics type "Throughput"
-T 300 = duration of test 300 seconds
-r = read
-w = write
These tests will run across the whole disk/partition and the write tests
WILL BE DESTRUCTIVE so be warned!
-Ross
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