>>>>> "TH" == Tru Huynh <tru@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
TH> We are testing the 7+1 raid5 solution on a Rocky 3782-EV motherboard
TH> (i815E) and a p3-800eb with 2x256MB ram. And the performace with the
TH> raid5 hardware was "bad":
I had some problems when I originally set up my box (XFS/RedHat 1.0, 3ware
Escalalade 6800, 8xIBM 76GB disks). The array was horribly, incredibly
slow. It turns out that for some reason it needed to do a full rebuild.
This doesn't show up as activity on the external activity LED and since
3ware doesn't provide any command line tools the only way to see that it's
rebuilding is to run their stupid web-based thing.
But after six or so hours the speed went back up to something reasonable;
hdparm reports around 51MB/sec reads (versus less than 1MB/sec before).
- J<
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