Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:40, Greg wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > you were right. I should have thought of it from that point > of view. But even when I do a hdparm test on the > individual drives, I still get very low readings. The > drives are both set with basically everything turned off, > includi

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Greg
strange, as this method is supposed to improve performance. regards Greg - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Pflugmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup Wa

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-01-30 at 21:47:11 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > raid, I would get results around > 387mb cache, and 45mb read. The settings I would use on > these systems would be hdparm -X68 -c3 -d1 -u1 -m16. > Now, when I ran hdparm in md9 (had to install, the distro > didn't have it

[newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Greg
Hi list, just installed md yesterday. When setting up partitions I decided to use software raid on the recomendations of some that it can give a good increase in performance. Previously on my other linux installs, taking the hdparm readings as a performance measure, when not using software raid,