Re: Performance .... MegaRAID

1999-11-15 Thread Jarno Lähteenmäki
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Matthew Clark wrote: Does anyone here use a MegaRAID Hardware RAID controller? If yes, what is your performance like? On a 500Mb file copy (from sda - sda) we get around 2.5Mb per second.. it seems very low. At worst, we have had 456k per sec. I have one in HP

Partitions on RAID ?

1999-11-15 Thread Danilo Godec
Hi! Can I use partitions on software raid device (/dev/md0, raid-5 in my case)? Using 2.2.13 with raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 patch and raidtools-0.90. Thanks, D.

DAC960 improprely working after booting on it

1999-11-15 Thread Gilles Poulleau
Hello, I have a DAC960 installed with SuSe 6.1. kernel 2.2.7 As long as I'm booting with the CD and loading manually the DAC960 driver before booting the kernel installed on the disk controlled by the DAC960, everything goes fine and the system is totally available. But if I'm booting with the

RE: Performance .... MegaRAID

1999-11-15 Thread David Cooley
At 01:35 PM 11/15/1999 +, Matthew Clark wrote: I'm going to try adding memory a processor.. when we use Bonnie, the CPU usage sometimes hits 97%.. this can't be good! I've found Bonnie to be really misleading... CPU useage is higher when setting it to run a single test file... Running it

Re: Partitions on RAID ?

1999-11-15 Thread Jason Clifford
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Danilo Godec wrote: Can I use partitions on software raid device (/dev/md0, raid-5 in my case)? Using 2.2.13 with raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 patch and raidtools-0.90. If you mean can you use partitions as components of an array rather than just using raw block devices

RE: Performance .... MegaRAID

1999-11-15 Thread Matthew Clark
I agree... something more simple like time dd if=/dev/zero of=./bigfile bs=1024 count=1024 gives more accurate cpu info - still around 4 Mb/sec though -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Cooley Sent: 15 November 1999 13:57 To:

booting from second drive.

1999-11-15 Thread Luis Costabile
Hello, I installed root as a mirrored volume. I have two SCSI disks only in the system. According to the HOWTO it's suggested to have /boot reside on a separate partition on each disk. I installed the kernels and other stuff normally on /boot to these partitions then one at a time ran lilo

Re: booting from second drive.

1999-11-15 Thread Robert Dahlem
Luis, On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:49:07 -0500 (EST), Luis Costabile wrote: Hello, I installed root as a mirrored volume. I have two SCSI disks only in the system. According to the HOWTO it's suggested to have /boot reside on a separate partition on each disk. I installed the kernels and other

Re: booting from second drive.

1999-11-15 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Hello, I installed root as a mirrored volume. I have two SCSI disks only in the system. According to the HOWTO it's suggested to have /boot reside on a separate partition on each disk. I installed the kernels and other stuff normally on /boot to these partitions then one at a time ran