I have a 3ware card (7810) with three drives and performance seems (I haven't started hard testing yet) seems to be == to a standard HD ... Note: I'm using RAID5 across the three drives.
What model 3ware card do you have? I'll try to remember to let you know how things go once I start testing.. On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 08:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well does anyone have input on hardware based IDE raid cards under Linux > then? I already mentioned that the performance that I get out of my 3ware > controller isn't all that and I mentioned this along side with my Samba > comment that you all responded to that this was with the same machine using > the 3ware card. If you want I can post my smb.conf file so you can pick it > apart, but I think the deeper issue are the drivers for the 3ware card. I > mean if all of my hardware is supposed to be all that (along with the 3ware > BIOS), the kernel and Samba are all that, then that only leaves the 3ware > drivers that are compiled into the stock kernel released with mdk 8.1, > right? Also, the most troubling problem with the 3ware card that I'm having > right now under mdk 8.1 is multitasking. If I have one disk intensive task > going like copying a file from one partition to the next or have 2-3 streams > over the network (under Samba, but no blame being implied on it here) and > then another stream for playing an mp3, the mp3 will pause for up to several > seconds at a time at regular intervals. Also under a moderate load like this > I noticed that the buffers regularly empty while burning a CD at 8x. Under > mdk 7.2 with one hard drive (the exact same as what I'm using on the 3ware > controller) and a Promise Ultra66 controller I could have many more streams > going demanding more bandwidth and the streams that where time sensitive (mp3 > and burning simultaneously) went without a hitch. > > "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > > |-----Original Message----- > > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > > |Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:52 PM > > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |Subject: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 > > |(relative to other things) > > | > > | More recently my > > |roommate installed Windows XP on his system and I noticed that > > |it (the XP machine) could push ~9 MB/s to my main Linux box > > |while my main Linux box (mdk 8.1) could only push ~6 MB/s. > > |This leads me to believe that Samba (2.2.1a and below) has > > |inferior performance to Windows XP when it comes to handling > > |large files. > > | > > > > --- > > > > Quite the opposite is true. > > > > Recent benchmarks on that very same version of Samba by Ziff-Davis > > people (Cnet and the like) report that Samba EXCEEDS Win2K and WinXP in > > xfer speeds. > > > > You have something wrong with your setup. > > > > --- > > > > I'm not going to get into the so called "raid" setup you are using... > > Which is another problem altogether... > > > > -JMS > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ------------------------------- Edward Muller Director of IS 973-715-0230 (cell) 212-487-9064 x115 (NYC) http://www.learningpatterns.com -------------------------------
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