On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
I bought the array here:
http://www.acnc.com
The biggest RAID-5 we have is on one of those boxes. So far has performed
very well for us.
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
So-so. RAID-5 is okay on a IMAP reader box, it's not so good for a pure SMTP
relay, especially one that does virus scanning.
For our SMTP I think we will have "small" machines with RAID-1
If your DB claims to support a RAID-5
Will check. Will be us
Francisco wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Small writes are pretty much the worst-case scenario for RAID-5,
Such as mail servers?
How about for a DB server which is mostly read only?
normal to see a very significant performance drop-- by up to an order
of magnitude-- from the
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Small writes are pretty much the worst-case scenario for RAID-5,
Such as mail servers?
How about for a DB server which is mostly read only?
normal to see a very significant performance drop-- by up to an order of
magnitude-- from the performance of a b
Am 23.09.2005 um 05:05 schrieb Chuck Swiger:
I have been trying to convince the "powers that be" that SCSI
would be much better.. but the price difference is just too
astronomical for the capacities we need (500GB to 2 TB)
Even 10K RPM IDE drives seem like would be a problem since they
are
Francisco wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Small writes are pretty much the worst-case scenario for RAID-5,
Such as mail servers?
So-so. RAID-5 is okay on a IMAP reader box, it's not so good for a pure SMTP
relay, especially one that does virus scanning.
How about for a DB
Jeff Tchang wrote:
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When I attempt to write many small files or remove a directory is when the
slowness kicks in. Is this just something due to Raid5? Here is the output
of Bonnie++:
Small writes are pretty much the worst-case scenario for RAID-5, and it's
normal to see a very signific
From what I've seen with such a slow machine and only
3 disks I doubt you would get good performance.
Steve
- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Tchang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a 3Ware 7500-4 card. I am experiencing some sluggishness with the
RAID5 implementation. It has been running
I have a 3Ware 7500-4 card. I am experiencing some sluggishness with the
RAID5 implementation. It has been running in a stable state for quite some
time, however, I have always wondered if there was something I was not doing
because it is very slow.
System Specs:
pharos# dmesg | grep twe
twe0:
