Re: Best COPY Performance

Merlin/Luke:

> > in theory, with 10 10k disks in raid 10, you should be able to keep
> > your 2fc link saturated all the time unless your i/o is extremely
> > random. random i/o is the wild card here, ideally you should see at
> > least 2000 seeks in bonnie...lets see what comes up.

> I suspect the problem here is the sequential I/O rate - let's wait and see
> what the dd test results look like.

Here are the tests that you suggested that I do, on both the local
disks (WAL) and the SAN (tablespace). The random seeks seem to be far
below what Merlin said was "good", so I am a bit concerned. There is
a bit of other activity on the box at the moment which is hard to
stop, so that might have had an impact on the processing.

Here is the bonnie++ output:

Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
Local Disks 31G 45119 85 56548 21 27527 8 35069 66 86506 13 499.6 1
SAN 31G 53544 98 93385 35 18266 5 24970 47 57911 8 611.8 1

And here are the dd results for 16GB RAM, i.e. 4,000,000 8K blocks:
# Local Disks
$ time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/myhome/bigfile bs=8k
count=4000000 && sync"
4000000+0 records in
4000000+0 records out

real 10m0.382s
user 0m1.117s
sys 2m45.681s
$ time dd if=/home/myhome/bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k count=4000000
4000000+0 records in
4000000+0 records out

real 6m22.904s
user 0m0.717s
sys 0m53.766s

# Fibre Channel SAN
$ time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/test/bigfile bs=8k
count=4000000 && sync"
4000000+0 records in
4000000+0 records out

real 5m58.846s
user 0m1.096s
sys 2m18.026s
$ time dd if=/data/test/bigfile of=/dev/null bs=8k count=4000000
4000000+0 records in
4000000+0 records out

real 14m9.560s
user 0m0.739s
sys 0m53.806s