Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-17 Thread Cory
Duncan Hill wrote: Oh, as a small example - the DB server attached to the SAN can pull data faster than my personal server, even though the personal server is only dealing with one request and the DB/SAN is dealing with hundreds per second (and the personal server is no slouch). Fun to watch a

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-17 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 20:58, Chris White wrote: > performance?". From what I know of MySQL, not really, because MySQL does a > good amount of work in memory. The only time I'd see disk access being a > factor is if you had a large mass of swap/virtual memory. I have to play with 300 gig of

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-14 Thread Jon Frisby
It was my impression, from the information we've collected that our problem is very specific to Opteron. It's possible that your problem is actually unrelated. :( -JF On Jul 14, 2006, at 7:24 AM, living liquid|Christian Meisinger wrote: We're using Opterons, Linux 2.6.x, and a SiL (Silic

RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-14 Thread Tim Lucia
s and binlogs and data together? TIA, Tim > -Original Message- > From: Tim Lucia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:41 PM > To: 'Chris White'; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred. > >

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-14 Thread living liquid | Christian Meisinger
> We're using Opterons, Linux 2.6.x, and a SiL (Silicon Image) SATA > chipset whose particular model number I don't have in front of me. > > After MUCH MUCH MUCH trial and error we've discovered that: > 1) 2.6.16 substantially alleviates the problem but doesn't eliminate it. > 2) There is a 3Ware

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-13 Thread Jon Frisby
On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:03 PM, mos wrote: At 03:45 PM 7/12/2006, Jon Frisby wrote: This REALLY should be an academic concern. Either you have a system that can tolerate the failure of a drive, or you do not. The frequency of failure rates is pretty much irrelevant: You can train incredibly no

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-13 Thread mos
At 03:45 PM 7/12/2006, Jon Frisby wrote: This REALLY should be an academic concern. Either you have a system that can tolerate the failure of a drive, or you do not. The frequency of failure rates is pretty much irrelevant: You can train incredibly non-technical (inexpensive) people to respond

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-13 Thread Jon Frisby
We're using Opterons, Linux 2.6.x, and a SiL (Silicon Image) SATA chipset whose particular model number I don't have in front of me. After MUCH MUCH MUCH trial and error we've discovered that: 1) 2.6.16 substantially alleviates the problem but doesn't eliminate it. 2) There is a 3Ware card that

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread living liquid | Christian Meisinger
> * - For example: We faced a NASTY problem using AMD 64-bit CPUs + SATA + > Linux where I/O on the system (the WHOLE system, not JUST the SATA > spindles -- network, PATA, USB, EVERYTHING) would suddenly come to a > grinding halt (or very nearly halted) randomly when the SATA subsystem > was under

RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Tim Lucia
> -Original Message- > From: Chris White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:15 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred. > > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 01:13 pm, Tim Lucia wrote: > > I&

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Chris White
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 01:13 pm, Tim Lucia wrote: > I've seen whitepapers from MySQL's web site, co-authored with Dell, that > recommend the hardware optimization be: > > 1. More Memory > 2. Faster Drives (15K RPM is better the 10K) > 3. Faster CPU. Oh wait, we forgot #4: > 4. Filesystem You

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Jon Frisby
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Chris White wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:18 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, for making numerous fast calls all over the disk. Two differ

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Chris White
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 01:13 pm, Tim Lucia wrote: > I've seen whitepapers from MySQL's web site, co-authored with Dell, that > recommend the hardware optimization be: > > 1. More Memory That's a definite > 2. Faster Drives (15K RPM is better the 10K) Well, I guess for any server really, the f

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Jon Frisby
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/12/06, mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 12:42 PM 7/12/2006, you wrote: >On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:26, mos wrote: > > SCSI drives are also designed to run 24/7 whereas IDE drives are more > > likely to fail if used on a busy server.

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Jon Frisby
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Scott Tanner wrote: I am hoping the newer SATA II drives will provide SCSI performance at a reasonable price. It would be interesting to see if anyone has polled ISP's to see what they're using. I know they charge more (or at least they used to) for SCSI d

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 20:11, mos wrote: > To get the MTBF estimate, the manufacturer will power on 100 drives (or > more) and time to see when the first one fails. If it fails in 1000 hours, > then the MTBF is 100x1000hrs or 100,000 hours. I don't know much statistics, but I do know that tha

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Jon Frisby
This REALLY should be an academic concern. Either you have a system that can tolerate the failure of a drive, or you do not. The frequency of failure rates is pretty much irrelevant: You can train incredibly non-technical (inexpensive) people to respond to a pager and hot-swap a bad driv

RE: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Tim Lucia
y, July 12, 2006 3:59 PM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred. > > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:18 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: > > My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for > > transferring large files. A busy

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Chris White
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:18 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: > My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for > transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, > for making numerous fast calls all over the disk. Two different, > unrelated things. > > I am more than will

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/12/06, mos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 12:42 PM 7/12/2006, you wrote: >On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:26, mos wrote: > > SCSI drives are also designed to run 24/7 whereas IDE drives are more > > likely to fail if used on a busy server. > >This used to be the case. But there are SATA drives ou

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Scott Tanner
> > I am hoping the newer SATA II drives will provide SCSI performance at a > reasonable price. It would be interesting to see if anyone has polled ISP's > to see what they're using. I know they charge more (or at least they used > to) for SCSI drives if you are renting a server from them. It

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread mos
At 12:42 PM 7/12/2006, you wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:26, mos wrote: > SCSI drives are also designed to run 24/7 whereas IDE drives are more > likely to fail if used on a busy server. This used to be the case. But there are SATA drives out there now being made for "enterprise class," 100

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:26, mos wrote: > SCSI drives are also designed to run 24/7 whereas IDE drives are more > likely to fail if used on a busy server. This used to be the case. But there are SATA drives out there now being made for "enterprise class," 100% duty cycle operations. See, for

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/11/06, Brian Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, Your statement is partially correct, yes, it has faster transfer rates, but that is not only for tranfer large f

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-11 Thread mos
At 06:18 PM 7/11/2006, you wrote: My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, for making numerous fast calls all over the disk. Two different, unrelated things. I am more than willing to be called Wrong, slappe

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-11 Thread Jon Frisby
It's my understanding that the biggest remaining difference has to do with SCSI having far superior command queueing capabilities -- although SATA's command queueing may have closed the gap somewhat -- which provides for much better real-world performance when you have multiple database thr

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at 16:41:24 -0700, Chris White wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:18 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: >> My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for >> transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, >> for making numerous fast calls all over

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-11 Thread Scott Haneda
> Brian Dunning wrote: > >> My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for >> transferring large files. > > SCSI is better for EVERYTHING except your budget. Faster for large > transfers, small transfers, seek times, and most especially it handles > requests from multiple threads

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-11 Thread Chris W
Brian Dunning wrote: My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for transferring large files. SCSI is better for EVERYTHING except your budget. Faster for large transfers, small transfers, seek times, and most especially it handles requests from multiple threads much better

Re: I don't understand why SCSI is preferred.

2006-07-11 Thread Chris White
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:18 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: > My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for > transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, > for making numerous fast calls all over the disk. Two different, > unrelated things. > > I am more than will