Hello,
I am evaluating Starwind and Starport performance. Below is the configuration.
Target:
- P4 3.0 (HT)
- Intel 865 chipset
- 1G DDR 400
- 40G ATA133 7200 RPM 8M cache (delicate for iscsi share)
- Intel Pro/100
- OS: Windows 2003 SP1 on another 40G ATA133 7200RPM
- Starwind 3.2.1
Client:
- P4 2.8 (no HT)
- Intel 865 chipset
- 1G DDR 333
- 40G ATA133 8M cache (formatted to 64k allocation unit size)
- Intel Pro/100
- Winidows XP SP2
- Starport 3.2
Switch:
- 8 port gigabit
- No Jumbo Frame Support
The LAN evironment has been optimized (only TCPIP and no other protocol in windows LAN setting) and the 4 registry values has also optimized to that posted in the forum.
I use IOmeter (32k block size) to check the speed but the range is just 6.3MB/s to 7.2MB/s.
Windows performance monitor in client shows the disk queue length is over 90 but CPU loading is pretty low, around 12%.
Is there any update/tunning I need to optimize the queue or I/O requests size? I expect iscsi should have performance over NAS.
I tested using NAS (window file share) result is around 8.2 MB/s to 8.7MB/s and queue length is below 10. I expect iSCSI should have 10MB/s.
Please help!!
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