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It Depends. :-)
Seriously it really does.
If (which is impossible) you had 100% reads then your I.O times will
be approximately 12.5% slower (1 of 8) because of the hot spare not
being available to 'contribute'.
If (also impossible) you had 100% writes then you should see more than
50% longer response times as there are two additional ops required
plus the hot spare not contributing and don't forget the RAID card
will be more busy tracking two RAID sets.
But of course you do a mix of reads and writes, more reads less
penalty more writes more penalty.
And then there is queuing theory to deal with. If your disks are
currently 3 to 5% busy you're not going to care much if they go to 5
to 8% busy. But if they are already 35 to 40% busy and jump to 50 to
60% busy that's gonna hurt.
From everything you've said I really don't think you will be in
trouble here, just better protected!
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com
On 3/20/2014 12:01 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
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But, Jeff, if your run time went from 38 seconds to 5 minutes,
would
of 7complain?
Is that what's going to happen? Everything will be slower by a
factor
or 8 *times* (38 seconds to 300 seconds)? Seriously, or are youit
saying
for effect?years
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:44 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Everything is relative. Many of us on this list will go on and on
about how much of a performance dog a 3 drive raid set is on scsi
disks. As recently stated: PA-THE-TIC! However one poster put on
here (some
theyago) that these people were coming from a S/36 and wouldn't really
know how fast the machine could go. They would be impressed with
what they got.
But, Jeff, if your run time went from 38 seconds to 5 minutes,
would
Thecomplain?
Rob Berendt
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From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/20/2014 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: RAID 6 rebuild time - can I slash it?
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
In various discussions regarding disk and performance and RAID 6
going back many months, posters keep hammering away on the
performance of RAID 6.
done.most important thing to us is protection.
Last October, Dr Franken posted this:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201310/msg00754.html
I assume that's still true.
Regarding our performance, we have no performance issues,
whatsoever. I mean none. No one *ever* complains about response
time or how long a batch job takes on the System i. Ever.
As an example, we're a food distribution warehouse. The orders to
be delivered today were staged yesterday and then are run
all-at-once in batch. The operator took the option at @4:35pm.
This processed every order against inventory, generated all picking
labels, the invoices, and all documentation needed by the night
crew to load the trucks. This entire process took 38 seconds.
This is very typical. The actual *print* time for those labels and
invoices was obviously longer, but the job was
PDF)
This is followed by running a ton of reports (some hardcopy and
some
it'sin a follow up batch job. This takes less than 2 minutes.
The above is our most complex and important business hours task,
and
deadless than 3 minutes total. Should I be worried about performance?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Wilson Jonathan
<piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 08:33 -0400, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:out.
Sue,
Raid 6 would mean you'd have to lose at least two drives to be
wiped
Raid 6 with hot spare means you'd have to lose at least three
drives, right?
Raid 6 means you can loose 2 working disks, but can continue
running, but if 1 more working disk failed during a re-building
spare you're
listin the water, unless it was the rebuilding spare in which caselost
you're still running.
that
Kind of like, which is better:
Raid 5 with a hot spare, or
Raid 6 with no hot spare
Either way, you'd have to lose two drives to be fried. I would
think
Raid 6 would be better if there was a risk the second drive would
be
rebuilding.while the hot spare for raid 5 was becoming active and still
drivesacross
With Raid 5 you lose the space of one drive to striping (spread
out
all drives). How much do you lose to Raid 6?
You loose 2 drives worth of space to the redundancy, no matter the
layout or number of raid6 disks.
Ideally the parity should be spread across all the disks as
apposed to specific parity drives, at least as far as linux mdadm is concerned...
it may be different for IBM i cards/systems but in the linux world
its much faster to have the parity interleaved with the data as it
prevents contention on what would become a parity disk(s).
Is there a performance degradation from removing one of your disk
8of a 8 drive SCSI raid set to become hot spare?
I would think there would be two performance hits. One, dropping
from
performancedrives supporting the raid stripe down to only 4. The other
listhit would be one less disk arm assisting while it's just sitting
there waiting to be hot spare.
Rob Berendt
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1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com
From: Sue Baker <sue.baker@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 03/19/2014 06:34 PM
Subject: Re: RAID 6 rebuild time - can I slash it?
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 19 Mar
2014 16:29:52 GMT:
On a Saturday of my choosing, our HW service provider is going
to take our System i 520 from 2 8-drive RAID 5 sets to 2 8-drive
RAID 6 sets w/hot spare.
Wow! This is quite a change in data protection.
You realize that in order to have your data at risk, you need to
lose 2 drives in the RAID6 array?
Generally, I recommend to customers to do RAID5 + hot spare or
RAID6. I see it as more importante to have as many disk units as
possible for RAID6 versus adding the tiny bit of reduced delay
time for rebuild to begin on a single failed drive that is
provided by hot spare.
Time to create the RAID6 arrays is mostly dependent on the size
of the drives. Other factors are whether there is data on them
or not (% full is irrelevent) and the type of disk controller.
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