Re: [PERFORM] Best use of second controller with faster disks?

2007-06-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Vivek Khera writes: no file will ever be larger than 1Gb I didn't need to make any adjustments to the newfs parameters. You should consider using newfs -i 65536 for partitions to be used for postgresql. You will get more usable space and will still have lots of free inodes. For my next

Re: [PERFORM] Best use of second controller with faster disks?

2007-06-14 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: FreeBSD, indeed. The vendor, Partners Data Systems, did a wonderful This one? http://www.partnersdata.com that's the one. job ensuring that everything integrated well to the point of talking with various FreeBSD developers, LSI

Re: [PERFORM] Best use of second controller with faster disks?

2007-06-13 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 12, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: Vivek Khera writes: what raid card have you got? 2 3ware cards. I believe both are 9550SX i'm playing with an external enclosure which has an areca sata raid in it and connects to the host via fibre channel. What is the OS? FreeBSD?

Re: [PERFORM] Best use of second controller with faster disks?

2007-06-13 Thread Francisco Reyes
Vivek Khera writes: FreeBSD, indeed. The vendor, Partners Data Systems, did a wonderful This one? http://www.partnersdata.com job ensuring that everything integrated well to the point of talking with various FreeBSD developers, LSI engineers, etc., and sent me a fully tested system

Re: [PERFORM] Best use of second controller with faster disks?

2007-06-12 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: RAID card 1 with 8 drives. 7200 RPM SATA RAID10 RAID card 2 with 4 drives. 10K RPM SATA RAID10 what raid card have you got? i'm playing with an external enclosure which has an areca sata raid in it and connects to the host via fibre

Re: [PERFORM] Best use of second controller with faster disks?

2007-06-12 Thread Francisco Reyes
Vivek Khera writes: what raid card have you got? 2 3ware cards. I believe both are 9550SX i'm playing with an external enclosure which has an areca sata raid in it and connects to the host via fibre channel. What is the OS? FreeBSD? One of the reasons I stick with 3ware is that it is