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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:11:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002181508390.1712-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <38ACADD6.E8566B65@newsguy.com>

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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> >         I also notice that softupdates on a slow disk beat out
> > Linux/ext2fs+async on a single CPU system that was otherwise
> > similarly configured, except for the DPT SmartRAID V controller that
> > the Linux server had to it's advantage, and the 5-way RAID-5 volume
> > that it was writing to.
> 
> DPT is known to be slow, and write performance on RAID-5 is lower than
> on single-disk.

  Big difference between DPT SmartRAID IV, and SmartRAID V.  You are
probably referring to the IV.

  BTW, I found the performance of SmartRAID IV on a single disk using
postmark with the 1000/50000 test to be 20% faster than a single disk.
SmartRAID cards in general usually handle postmark quite well.

> --
> Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
> 
> 	"If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager."
> 
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> 
> 


Tom
Uniserve



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