[Glass] RAID5 configurations

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Dario,

Performance testing for GemStone is a bit more complicated than what you 
are doing here.

The number one disk-based performance issue is that both tranlogs and 
extents are on the same LUN... Linux tends to prioritize reads over 
writes and I have seen cases where tranlog writes can take up to a 
second or more because of high volume read activity on the same LUN ... 
Putting the extents and tranlogs on separate LUNs eliminates this 
problem even thought the underlying disk may be the same...

But without looking at VSD you really cannot tell where your bottlenecks 
are ...

Your test looks like a very straightforward test but the bottleneck 
could be disk (high iowaits) or it could be cpu contention (cpus running 
flat out) or ???

It is somewhat of an art for doing performance tuning for GemStone since 
there are so many variables, in the past we have put on 1 week classes 
on just performance tuning. There are also GemStone consultants who can 
come in and do performance tuning...

If there is enough interest for a performance tuning class we might 
consider putting on another one ... normally we travel to a site to give 
the test (or have them travel to our offices) ... it might be possible 
for us to put on a web-based class, but I'm not familiar with the 
logistics of doing this...

Dale

On 2/19/15 9:42 AM, Dario Trussardi via Glass wrote:
> Ciao,
>
> 	i do some test for RAID5 performance.
>
> 	I have testing with chunk size of 512KB   and with chunk size of 8KB.
>
>
> 	I run the code:
>
>   		[ 1 to: 10000 do:[ :int | UserGlobals at: #Scandella put: (( UserGlobals at: #Scandella ) +1).
> 							System commit ]] timeToRun.
>
> 	obtaining the same execution time.
>
> 	Is not strange ?
>
> 	With the chunk of 8KB i will expected better performance.
>
> 	Dario
>
>> Dario,
>>
>> The extents are written in 16k byte chunks and the tranlogs are written in variable size chunks up to 64k bytes ... I'm not completely familiar with how that translates into chunk size, but this should help you figure out the rest ...
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On 02/11/2015 01:14 PM, Dario Trussardi via Glass wrote:
>>> Ciao,
>>>
>>> 	i have a system with md software RAID5  configurations where i load GLASS 3.1.0.6.
>>>
>>> 	My questions is :    there is a preferable  md chunk-size for run glass ?
>>>
>>> 	Thank,
>>>
>>> 		Dario
>>>
>>> 	
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