Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
Stewart Williams schrieb: ... ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7: GB0250C8045, HPG1, max UDMA/133 ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata2.00:

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-13 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: The block I/O is the thing that concerns me as mostly I am serving a 650MB file via samba to 5 clients and I think this is where I need the speed. is this a sequential or random

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
William Warren wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: William Warren wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.01.2009 um 18:36 schrieb Ross Walker: If all your doing is serving a single file to a handful of PCs then a 2 drive mirror will be more then enough. Actually, he could put it on a swap-backed tmpfs and serve it directly from RAM. Seeing that he has 4GB of it... If it's really only

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Ross Walker wrote: On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: William Warren wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R)

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 11, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 11.01.2009 um 18:36 schrieb Ross Walker: If all your doing is serving a single file to a handful of PCs then a 2 drive mirror will be more then enough. Actually, he could put it on a swap-backed tmpfs and

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: William Warren wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Stewart Williams wrote: I am no expert on RAID, so you have opened my eyes to somethings I wasn't aware of. I am considering disabling the onboard RAID in the BIOS and re-installing CentOS and configuring the 4 drives as RAID 10 just to see what the performance is like. Yes, unless you

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Stewart Williams wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: The block I/O is the thing that concerns me as mostly I am serving a 650MB file via samba to 5 clients and I think this is where I need the

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi Rob, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi, I too run quickbooks (2007) and offer the following scenario - 5 user licences (actually 2 times three user package were purchased). Previously I used version 2004 and this allows much better sharing of the data file, unfortunately I got sucked into an upgrade

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi Stuart Stewart Williams wrote: Hi Rob, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi, I too run quickbooks (2007) and offer the following scenario - 5 user licences (actually 2 times three user package were purchased). Previously I used version 2004 and this allows much better sharing of the data file,

[CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-10 Thread Stewart Williams
I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID controller is enabled but at the moment I have used mdadm

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID controller is enabled but at

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 at 10:46pm, Stewart Williams wrote Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory To actually test disk performance, you need to use a filesize of at least 2X (and preferably 4X) memory size. Otherwise you're just testing memory performance. -- Joshua Baker-LePain

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-10 Thread William Warren
Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID controller is enabled but at