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A.1. <strong>Data</strong> Storage 267<br />

Read Speed (Mbit/sec)<br />

1600<br />

1400<br />

1200<br />

1000<br />

800<br />

600<br />

400<br />

vm.max-readahead 31<br />

vm.max-readahead 63<br />

vm.max-readahead 127<br />

vm.max-readahead 256<br />

vm.max-readahead 512<br />

vm.max-readahead 1200<br />

Write Speed (Mbit/sec)<br />

1600<br />

1400<br />

1200<br />

1000<br />

800<br />

600<br />

400<br />

vm.max-readahead 31<br />

vm.max-readahead 63<br />

vm.max-readahead 127<br />

vm.max-readahead 256<br />

vm.max-readahead 512<br />

vm.max-readahead 1200<br />

200<br />

200<br />

0<br />

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000<br />

File Size (MBytes)<br />

(a) Read Performance<br />

0<br />

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000<br />

File Size (MBytes)<br />

(b) Write Performance<br />

Figure A.1: Performance of ICP SATA (RAID 5 with 4 Disks <strong>and</strong> 33Mhz PCI).<br />

Read Speed (Mbit/sec)<br />

1600<br />

1400<br />

1200<br />

1000<br />

800<br />

600<br />

400<br />

vm.max-readahead 31<br />

vm.max-readahead 63<br />

vm.max-readahead 127<br />

vm.max-readahead 256<br />

vm.max-readahead 512<br />

vm.max-readahead 1200<br />

Write Speed (Mbit/sec)<br />

1600<br />

1400<br />

1200<br />

1000<br />

800<br />

600<br />

400<br />

vm.max-readahead 31<br />

vm.max-readahead 63<br />

vm.max-readahead 127<br />

vm.max-readahead 256<br />

vm.max-readahead 512<br />

vm.max-readahead 1200<br />

200<br />

200<br />

0<br />

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000<br />

File Size (MBytes)<br />

(a) Read Performance<br />

0<br />

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000<br />

File Size (MBytes)<br />

(b) Write Performance<br />

Figure A.2: Performance for ICP SATA (RAID 5 with 4 Disks <strong>and</strong> 66Mhz PCI).<br />

same read performance as that of an un-tuned 66Mhz ICP card under these<br />

tests. A slightly higher write speed was achieved with the 66 MHz PCI mode<br />

compared with the 33 MHz mode.<br />

Figure A.3 <strong>and</strong> Figure A.4 show results for the 3Ware parallel ATA<br />

RAID controllers configured as RAID-5. Figure A.3 refers to the older controller<br />

with a 33 MHz PCI bus speed, whilst Figure A.4 refers to the newer<br />

model with a 66 MHz PCI bus speed. The read speeds improve with the<br />

vm.max-readahead setting for both cards, with the newer card with the 66<br />

MHz PCI bus showing greater stability in terms of the variation in speed

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