Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

[Marcus Grando]

You try with iozone (benchmarks/iozone)?

Regards

Steven Hartland wrote:
> I've just finished putting together a new server box spec:
> Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a
> Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array.
> The machine is currently running 5.4-STABLE ( from the
> weekend ) After install I did some basic tests and the
> disk is return very poor performance low in fact than a
> single disk on a bog standard ATA 100 controller:
> 
> 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk )
> dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10000
> 10000+0 records in
> 10000+0 records out
> 655360000 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec)
> 
> 5.3-RELEASE Highpoint 454 RAID 5 ( 4 disk )
> dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10000
> 10000+0 records in
> 10000+0 records out
> 655360000 bytes transferred in 20.410034 secs (32109697 bytes/sec)
> 
> 5.2.1-RELEASE Intel ICH3 UDMA100 ( 1 disk )
> dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10000
> 10000+0 records in
> 10000+0 records out
> 655360000 bytes transferred in 11.142405 secs (58816745 bytes/sec)
> 
> Obviously something is seriously a miss here somewhere as
> both the RAID 5 arrays a producing less throughput than
> a single disk.
> 
> Where do I start looking?
> 
>    Steve

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Marcus Grando
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