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08-10-2004 11:36 PM
08-10-2004 11:36 PM
RAID 5i performance
and find the throughput really disappointing even with the new driver HP released on Sunday 1st. The machine is running RHEL 3.
# time dd bs=1024k if=/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 of=/dev/null count=100 skip=2000
100+0 records out
real 0m2.352s
itebox).
ie. about 42MB/s when I'd expect two disks' worth.
We asked the dealer to do a test on a windows machine with similar kit and it is just as bad.
It seems the machine/controller/driver combination is bad (or the disks fell off the back of a lorry).
Could I ask for an official HP response to this. Also that anybody else test the performance of this hardware use with RAID5.
Jon
P.S. Could the webperson enlarge the silly little box I am typing into please.
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08-11-2004 02:44 AM
08-11-2004 02:44 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
Basically it's a combination of RAID 5 with only 3 disks and not having the Battery Backed Write Cache (BBWC) for the 5i.
Check some of these previous discussions:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=650277
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=206252
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=200118
Thanks,
Doug

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08-11-2004 04:18 AM
08-11-2004 04:18 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
* other people have the same problem
* the write cache thing has no effect on read performance which is what I'm asking about
* this controller does indeed seem to be awful and cannot match what can be knocked up with software RAID and a fraction of the money
Jon
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08-11-2004 04:57 AM
08-11-2004 04:57 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
Is the 5i at the latest firmware revison? 2.58a?
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/20142.html
It has a fix in it that may pertain to your issue. :
Fixed a problem that unnecessarily caused drives to downshift to slower speeds.
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08-11-2004 08:34 PM
08-11-2004 08:34 PM
Re: RAID 5i performance
It is unclear from the changelog whether they fixed the problem with the addition of the A or earlier.
Right now the server is being used on a live website so I can't down it (again).
Does anybody from HP actually participate in this forum in an official capacity ? It would save a lot of wasted time.
Jon
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08-27-2004 12:31 AM
08-27-2004 12:31 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
It said I already had 2.58 so I ran it with the force option which succeeded.
I rebooted. There was no performance improvement.
Jon
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08-27-2004 01:08 AM
08-27-2004 01:08 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
However I have a 380G2 supporting 285 users as a DMS. and it is 6 36.4 B drives RAID 5 and running off of the 5I. no one has ever complained of slowness saving or checking out documents. perhaps you should review your configuration.
I guess you really never said which 380 you purchased. G2 would best be suited with a 5300 series. those are U160 and the g3's are U320.
Try updating the firmware on the embedded controlellers on the SCSI HDs.
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08-27-2004 01:36 AM
08-27-2004 01:36 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
> saving or checking out documents.
I'm interesting in pumping gigabyte files not word documents !
Jon
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08-27-2004 02:04 AM
08-27-2004 02:04 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
Thanks,
Doug

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08-31-2004 12:19 AM
08-31-2004 12:19 AM
Re: RAID 5i performance
42 MB/s is comparable to old ATA drives such as Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, and you don't think a Raid 5 set of new 10k RPM SCSI drives should perform better?
Sør
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