Well does anyone have input on hardware based IDE raid cards under Linux then? I already mentioned that the performance that I get out of my 3ware controller isn't all that and I mentioned this along side with my Samba comment that you all responded to that this was with the same machine using the 3ware card. If you want I can post my smb.conf file so you can pick it apart, but I think the deeper issue are the drivers for the 3ware card. I mean if all of my hardware is supposed to be all that (along with the 3ware BIOS), the kernel and Samba are all that, then that only leaves the 3ware drivers that are compiled into the stock kernel released with mdk 8.1, right? Also, the most troubling problem with the 3ware card that I'm having right now under mdk 8.1 is multitasking. If I have one disk intensive task going like copying a file from one partition to the next or have 2-3 streams over the network (under Samba, but no blame being implied on it here) and then another stream for playing an mp3, the mp3 will pause for up to several seconds at a time at regular intervals. Also under a moderate load like this I noticed that the buffers regularly empty while burning a CD at 8x. Under mdk 7.2 with one hard drive (the exact same as what I'm using on the 3ware controller) and a Promise Ultra66 controller I could have many more streams going demanding more bandwidth and the streams that where time sensitive (mp3 and burning simultaneously) went without a hitch.
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > |Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:52 PM > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Subject: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 > |(relative to other things) > | > | More recently my > |roommate installed Windows XP on his system and I noticed that > |it (the XP machine) could push ~9 MB/s to my main Linux box > |while my main Linux box (mdk 8.1) could only push ~6 MB/s. > |This leads me to believe that Samba (2.2.1a and below) has > |inferior performance to Windows XP when it comes to handling > |large files. > | > > --- > > Quite the opposite is true. > > Recent benchmarks on that very same version of Samba by Ziff-Davis > people (Cnet and the like) report that Samba EXCEEDS Win2K and WinXP in > xfer speeds. > > You have something wrong with your setup. > > --- > > I'm not going to get into the so called "raid" setup you are using... > Which is another problem altogether... > > -JMS > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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