Re: Disk Benchmarking Question

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dave Stibrany <dstibrany(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disk Benchmarking Question
Date: 2016-03-19 10:32:13
Message-ID: CAOR=d=33jpYDj8vVKE_9r4gyfF76VH0H0vTOcf_GomR4aj_jyA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Given the size of your bonnie test set and the fact that you're using
> RAID-10, the cache should make little or no difference. The RAID
> controller may or may not interleave reads between all four drives.
> Some do, some don't. It looks to me like yours doesn't. I.e. when
> reading it's not reading all 4 disks at once, but just 2, 1 from each
> pair.

Point of clarification. It may be that if two processes are reading
the data set at once you'd get a sustained individual throughput that
matches what a single read can get.

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