At 04:22 PM 11/1/2005 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 07:23 PM 31/10/2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: | >On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: | > | >>> | >>>>I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the | >>>>fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native | >>>>FreeBSD support and they are FAST | >>>>http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm | > | >Saw a review last night of the Areca cards vs the latest 3ware. The | >areca cards were about twice as fast, but the article says that they | >are about twice as expensive (or something on that area). :-( | | OK, I finally got the RAM for a server that will be in my lab for | another week before going out to a customers. I was going to test | out the 9500SX and Areca using a bunch of different programs from the | simple (dd) to not quite so simple (one of our large radius data sets | in mysql) and see how things compare. Anyone have any requests for | me to run ? The only thing I will change on the box is an Areca for | the 9500SX. Other than that, the hardware will be the same. | | bonnie, iozone, bonnie++. Apps I will load up will be mysql. | | | | | CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2992.51-MHz 686-class CPU) | Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 | Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV ,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS, | HTT,TM,PBE> | Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>> | AMD Features=0x20000000<LM> | Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs | | | I am booting off an IDE drive and will run all tests against a single | RAID5 volume | | I will start with the 3ware tonight
Hi Mike, I have some benchmarks I wrote in PHP that build a database and update it, etc. I will setup the files so they are a little more clear and send them to you if you like. All you need is to have PHP loaded on the machine and then create a single MySQL database. Let me know if you are game. Ray _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
