On Saturday 06 December 2003 04:14 pm, Mike Arrison wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 December 2003 03:28 pm, Matt Garman wrote:
> > How's the data throughput of your hard drives? If it's low, having a fast
> > network won't make getting data off or onto the hard drives any faster.
>
> This doesn't sound right to me. The slowest hard drives, with the worst
> settings, under the worst circumstances, will still beat 230KB/s by an
> order of magnitude. And good hard drives will beat it by two orders of
> magnitude.
>
> How about the switch as the weak link? Have you tried a crossover cable
> to directly connect two of the boxes?
>
> -Mike Arrison
I've seen some real piss poor linux installs in my time and soem of them were
implemented as servers. You gotta' remember, that most default installs are
very conservative. Drive throughput does impact network throughput. Simply
enabling dma via hdparm can do wonders for network responce.
One other thing I'm waiting to hear... how's the network configed? You using
NFS, SAMBA, AFS, etc?
Let's hear some more details.
--
******************************************************************************
Registered Linux User Number 185956
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux
Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net
This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html.
3:44pm up 66 days, 20:37, 7 users, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.04
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
