On Fri, 21 May 1999, Soukup, Kevin wrote:
>
> All the reading I've been doing would suggest that the MagaRAID
> controller is the slowest RAID solution I could choose. Based on
> the Bonnie stats below, I THINK I recognize what is meant. The
> final two Bonnie runs on files of size 2047GB look like the IO is
> a serious bottleneck.
>
Hello,
I've benchmarked a Power Edge 2300 I received yesterday and I must
say that I'm also a bit disapointed by perfomance :( One thing you could
try is a Kernel upgrade (2.2.9) with the new Megaraid driver
(ftp://ftp.megatrends.com/MegaRAID/drivers/linux/linux.zip). May be you'll
get better performance.
Also there are some options in the Raid BIOS, does anyone knows a
good configuration (write back, write thruth, direct IO ...) ? And is
Raid1 better on Mega Raid ? Our server is not on production and I'm willing to
go to Raid1 if someone says that performance is really better.
Thanks.
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