Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-21 Thread Randy Schultz
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Tom Evans spaketh thusly: -} -}I think that a good SA will at least consider how drives are arranged. -}We don't just slap ZFS on a single disk and expect magic to happen, we -}consider how write heavy a system will be and consider a dedicated -}ZIL, we consider what proportio

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-21 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Matthew Tippett spaketh thusly: -}There are still possible issues with those benchmarks. The Xeon has known -}problems scaling from 6 to 12 cores (well enabling the hyperthreading), so you -}may find that some platforms are penalized in performance if HT is turned on. -}See t

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Randy Schultz
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Pieter de Goeje spaketh thusly: -}Detailed results here: -}http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 LOL! Pretty much 2 entirely different systems, even running different screen resolutions. Tnx for this link. -} -}As usual, the phoronix benchmarks are ver

Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

2009-09-29 Thread Randy Schultz
- "Andrew Kuriger" spaketh thusly: | | Since the article says that they left the debugging features on I | think | this has a bit to do with it. Obviously the testers didn't care to | read the | documentation, and didn't seem to care to use the same compiler which | is | available in ports,

Re: Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}filesystem? ext3? Correct. -} -}I want one of these failing machines *in my lab*. -} -}On 5/14/07, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -}> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}> -}> -}Time frame to reso

Re: PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Tom Judge spaketh thusly: -}I have attached some blogbench tests from the following configs: Woo-hoo! Tnx heaps and loads Tom. -} -}Perc5i 4 * SAS 15K RPM 146 Gig disks in raid 5. Hmm. This one was a bit troubling. It was only about twice as fast as the SATA/RAID 1 I te

PERC5i throughput [was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-15 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kevin Kobb spaketh thusly: -}These reports on poor performance using mpt seem to be on SATA -}drives. Has anybody been seeing this using SAS drives? -} -}We are testing Dell PE840s with hot swap SAS drives, and seem to get decent -}performance, though I haven't run any benchma

Dell SAS 5i/mpt driver[was: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid]

2007-05-14 Thread Randy Schultz
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Matthew Jacob spaketh thusly: -}Time frame to resolution involves getting a machine into my lab that -}evidences the poor performance and the time to sort out what the -}problem is and fix it. Remote access doesn't work for me on this one -}(contact me offline as to why). Hey

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Schultz
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Tom Judge spaketh thusly: -}> -- -} -}From the boot messages you have included below it seems that you have a Dell -}SAS-5i (Internal PCIe) controller and not a Perc/5[ie]. Tnx Tom. Yeah I knew that but didn't catch it in the Subject: The perc/5 is on another machine. -}

Re: possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Schultz
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bill Moran spaketh thusly: -} -}My personal server is a Dell 860 configured very similarly to yours, -}with the difference that it has a single 160G SATA drive (no RAID). -}It's also running 6.2. Hey Bill, Tnx for the data. I'm going to put a linux on to see if it's actual

possible issues with Dell/Perc5 raid

2007-05-11 Thread Randy Schultz
Hi there, We just purchased a Dell 860 with these specifics: - dual core pentium 915, 2.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB - 2x512 MB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM - Dell's SAS/SATA drive controller(which is actually an LSILogic) - their 5IR PCI-Express internal RAID controller - a pair of 250 GB SATA II's set up RA