I have a 3ware card (7810) with three drives and performance seems (I
haven't started hard testing yet) seems to be == to a standard HD ...
Note: I'm using RAID5 across the three drives.
What model 3ware card do you have?
I'll try to remember to let you know how things go once I start
testing..
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 08:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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> > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
>
>
>
>
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