Solnet Array Test Parallel Weirdness

riggieri

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Hello All

Wadding some drives and another pool to a previously established FreeNas system in production. I am adding some 6TB HGST NAS drives. I think I am seeing some weird Parallel test from the Solnet Array Test, but can't figure out why. What do you make of this?

Drives are all on a single SAS2 Channel, but I don't think that is the bottle neck.

Code:
Selected disks: da74 da75 da76 da77 da78 da79 da80 da81

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 41 lun 0 (pass78,da74)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 42 lun 0 (pass79,da75)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 43 lun 0 (pass80,da76)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 44 lun 0 (pass81,da77)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 45 lun 0 (pass82,da78)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 46 lun 0 (pass83,da79)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 47 lun 0 (pass84,da80)

<ATA HGST HDN726060AL T517>        at scbus1 target 48 lun 0 (pass85,da81)

Is this correct? (y/N): y

Performing initial serial array read (baseline speeds)

Thu Mar 26 11:12:50 EDT 2020

Thu Mar 26 11:30:51 EDT 2020                

Completed: initial serial array read (baseline speeds)



Array's average speed is 215.787 MB/sec per disk



Disk    Disk Size  MB/sec %ofAvg

------- ---------- ------ ------

da74     5723166MB    212     98

da75     5723166MB    221    102

da76     5723166MB    219    102

da77     5723166MB    221    102

da78     5723166MB    219    102

da79     5723166MB    217    101

da80     5723166MB    199     92

da81     5723166MB    219    101



Performing initial parallel array read

Thu Mar 26 11:30:51 EDT 2020

The disk da74 appears to be 5723166 MB.        

Disk is reading at about 210 MB/sec         

This suggests that this pass may take around 454 minutes

                                            

                   Serial Parall % of

Disk    Disk Size  MB/sec MB/sec Serial

------- ---------- ------ ------ ------

da74     5723166MB    212    211    100

da75     5723166MB    221    217     98

da76     5723166MB    219    219    100

da77     5723166MB    221    216     98

da78     5723166MB    219    219    100

da79     5723166MB    217    219    101

da80     5723166MB    199    210    106

da81     5723166MB    219    218    100



Awaiting completion: initial parallel array read

Thu Mar 26 21:03:51 EDT 2020

Completed: initial parallel array read



Disk's average time is 33816 seconds per disk



Disk    Bytes Transferred Seconds %ofAvg

------- ----------------- ------- ------

da74        6001175126016   34380    102

da75        6001175126016   33217     98

da76        6001175126016   33970    100

da77        6001175126016   33418     99

da78        6001175126016   33893    100

da79        6001175126016   34075    101

da80        6001175126016   34026    101

da81        6001175126016   33548     99



Performing initial parallel seek-stress array read

Thu Mar 26 21:03:51 EDT 2020

The disk da74 appears to be 5723166 MB.        

Disk is reading at about 81 MB/sec          

This suggests that this pass may take around 1177 minutes

                                            

                   Serial Parall % of

Disk    Disk Size  MB/sec MB/sec Serial

------- ---------- ------ ------ ------

da74     5723166MB    212     79     37

da75     5723166MB    221     81     37

da76     5723166MB    219     83     38

da77     5723166MB    221     80     36

da78     5723166MB    219     83     38

da79     5723166MB    217     82     38

da80     5723166MB    199     80     40

da81     5723166MB    219     86     39



Awaiting completion: initial parallel seek-stress array read
 
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