[nycbug-talk] File Backed Disks- Speed Issues

[Charles Sprickman]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Isaac Levy wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
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>> For what it's worth, I've been punishing a 3Ware 9550-SX-12 for the past
>> few weeks, and it has pretty much made me a convert.  Any new boxes we
>> build with hardware raid are getting these cards.  They are beating the
>> snot out of our Adaptec ZCR cards, both in performance and management.
>> 
>> Things that would require reboots and visits to the BIOS config when using
>> Adaptec were handled quite smoothly.  Punishment included yanking a bunch
>> of drives during a long bonnie run, rearranging the drives, yanking power
>> during drive rebuilds, etc.  And being able to change stripe sizes without
>> wiping the array is a real plus.
>> 
>> Sorry for the marketing,
>> 
>> C
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> Just to check, on FreeBSD Charles?

Yessir.  6.1 on an Opteron box and then a 4 port version running 6.1 on a 
1U P4 box.  The 4 port also screams.  I started with two drives and when I 
added two more speed nearly doubled (bonnie/pgbench).  The web GUI is so 
good I actually use it. :)

C

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