[linux-lvm] Re: lvm2 performance data with linux-2.6

[Mark Wong]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:12:35PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> markw at osdl.org wrote:
> > I've started collecting various data (including oprofile) using our
> > DBT-2 (OLTP) workload with lvm2 on linux 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 on ia32 and
> > ia64 platforms:
> > 	http://developer.osdl.org/markw/lvm2/
> > 
> > So far I've only varied the stripe width with lvm, from 8 KB to 512 KB,
> > for PostgreSQL that is using 8 KB sized blocks with ext2.  It appears
> > that a stripe width of 16 KB through 128KB on the ia64 system gives the
> > best throughput for the DBT-2 workload on a volume that should be doing
> > mostly sequential writes.
> > 
> > I'm going to run through more tests varying the block size that
> > PostgreSQL uses, but I wanted to share what I had so far in case there
> > were other suggestions or recommendations.
> > 
> Here's one thought: look at the i/o rates on individual drives using 
> each stripe size. You *might* see that one size does far fewer seeks 
> than others, which is a secondary thing to optimize after throughput IMHO.
> 
> If you don't have a tool for this I can send you the latest diorate 
> which does stuff like this, io rate perdrive or per partition, something 
> I occasionally find revealing.

Yeah, please do send me a copy.  I'd be interested to see what that might 
turn up.  I've just been using iostat -x so far.

Thanks,
Mark