Re: More Controllers != Higher Through Put

2010-07-20 Thread Stephen Sanders
We found that in order to get the dual controller case up to speed we had to set vfs.lorunningspace=1MB and vfs.hirunningspace=8MB. On 07/07/2010 10:12 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 07/07/10 01:35, Stephen Sanders wrote: > >> I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. >> >> I've a system with a 3w

Re: More Controllers != Higher Through Put

2010-07-07 Thread Stephen Sanders
Thanks for the response. Comments in inline --- On 7/7/2010 10:12 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 07/07/10 01:35, Stephen Sanders wrote: > >> I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. >> >> I've a system with a 3ware 9650 servicing 4 7200RPM Segate 1TB drives >> and the motherboard servicing 2 720

Re: More Controllers != Higher Through Put

2010-07-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/07/10 01:35, Stephen Sanders wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. > > I've a system with a 3ware 9650 servicing 4 7200RPM Segate 1TB drives > and the motherboard servicing 2 7200 RPM Segate 1TB drives. So far so good. > The 4 disk array is RAID 6 while the 2 disk array is RA

Re: More Controllers != Higher Through Put

2010-07-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 6, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Stephen Sanders wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. > > I've a system with a 3ware 9650 servicing 4 7200RPM Segate 1TB drives and the > motherboard servicing 2 7200 RPM Segate 1TB drives. > > The 4 disk array is RAID 6 while the 2 disk array is R

More Controllers != Higher Through Put

2010-07-06 Thread Stephen Sanders
I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this. I've a system with a 3ware 9650 servicing 4 7200RPM Segate 1TB drives and the motherboard servicing 2 7200 RPM Segate 1TB drives. The 4 disk array is RAID 6 while the 2 disk array is RAID 1. The drives should deliver about 100MB/s. 1. The most the 4 d