RAID 5 performance problems

Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:10:45 -0500


>Tos be certain that this was not the bottleneck, I removed it
>from the raid so that is runs in degraded mode. This did not
>change the performance much

Don't do that and expect a valid performance test.

On average, one-fifth of all array reads will cause reads from all four
remaining disks in order to reconstruct the missing data when you run
in that mode.

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Chuck
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