[suse-sles-e] Slow direct I/O performance SLES 10 SP1

From: Andreas Mock (andreas.mock_at_web.de)
Date: Sat Aug 04 2007 - 16:16:41 CEST


From: Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:16:41 +0200
Message-Id: <1186237001.5115.12.camel@brain>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Slow direct I/O performance SLES 10 SP1

Hi all,

I've a little problem here and want to ask you if you could help me.

I do have the following hardware at the moment:
- IBM x3550 / x3650 x86_64
- ServeRAID 8k-l SAS Controller, 2 SAS drives attached (aacraid-driver)
- trying SLES 10 SP1 64bit

When I do the following command on a local disk to check direct I/O
performance without any load I only get about 1MB/sec. I'm pretty sure
that's not too good and I don't understand why it is. As this is only a
guess of me I wanted to get sure that this is not really normal.

So I would like to ask you out there to do the same test and give some
figures back.

dd oflag=direct if=/dev/zero of=data.out bs=4k count=500000

Please perform this test even when the hardware is not too similar.
I would be also interested if this is a problem of 64bit vs. 32bit.

Thank you in advance
Andreas Mock

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