Re: Benchmarks

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork(at)bway(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Benchmarks
Date: 2006-08-28 16:02:59
Message-ID: 1156780979.10490.6.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 21:26, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> > I'll be throwing in some quick stats on the box described above later
> > today... At first glance, the 3Ware controller is really looking like an
> > excellent value.
>
> they are pretty decent. the benchmark is software raid which actually
> outperforms many hardware controllers. adaptec is complete trash,
> they even dropped support of their command line utilty for the
> controller on linux, ugh. ibm serveraid controllers are rebranded
> adaptect btw.

Just a followup on this. Last place I worked we had a bunch of Dell
2600 boxen with Adaptec RAID controllers. Due to the horribly
unreliable behaviour of these machines with those controllers (random
lockups etc...) we switched off the RAID and went to software mirror
sets under linux. The machines because very stable, and as an added
bonus, the performance was higher as well.

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