Re: Benchmarking.. how can I get more out of my box?

2000-03-07 Thread Brian Pomerantz
Well, I know I'm not getting the performance I want out of the Mylex DAC1164P. I was only getting 26MB/s on write throughput with 2 RAID 5 chains (5+p). I'm certain that either the card is not optimized, the driver is not optimized, or both. One of the things that we have found here at LLNL is

Benchmarking.. how can I get more out of my box?

2000-03-07 Thread Matthew Clark
Hey guys.. I just installed and ran iozone.. neat tool.. However I am very concerned about the "write" performance of my system... When the file size reaches 32Mb, I see a huge drop from around 129Mb/sec (obviously caching effects) right down to 10Mb/sec... then at 64Mb it drops to between 2

Re: Can LILO boot from raid ?

2000-03-07 Thread Marcelo CB
OK ! It has worked fine for me ! thanks a lot. ( I actually used a boot+root partition /dev/md0 , and the patched lilo from red-hat, since it was already installed ... ) ---_ _ Marcelo Corbani de Barros | __ __(_

RE: Reiser FS

2000-03-07 Thread MEDBERRY,DAVID (HP-Loveland,ex1)
Thomas, the list will be very interested in your ext3 results as well! guten tag -dave >working with jreiser fs 3.5.16 on a raid5 array (51gig) managed by a >will try ext3 also, before going productive with this system >greetings >thomas stegbauer

Re: SW-Raid1 over network block devices

2000-03-07 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, James Manning wrote: > [ Monday, March 6, 2000 ] Holger Kiehl wrote: > > node2: 2 x PII-350 128MB with 5 disks used as one single > > SW-Raid5, kernel 2.2.14 + mingos patch > > could you try 2 things? > 1) UP kernel > Also hangs. This one h

Re: Reiser FS

2000-03-07 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
Jon Doyle wrote: > > Anyone messing with the Reiser FS on Mylex RAID or other Hardware? > > Regards, > > Jon yes, working with jreiser fs 3.5.16 on a raid5 array (51gig) managed by a chaparal controller connected via initio u2w scsi2pci adapters to two servers (with failover). oracle is run

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2000-03-07 Thread Dave Anderson