Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec

Luke Lonergan wrote:

>Miguel,
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>On 3/20/06 12:52 PM, "Miguel" <mmiranda(at)123(dot)com(dot)sv> wrote:
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>>i have a HP dl380 g3 with array 5i controlled (1+0), these are my results
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>Another "known bad" RAID controller. The Smartarray 5i is horrible on Linux
>- this is the first BSD result I've seen.
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>>Seek times:
>> Full stroke: 250 iter in 1.138232 sec = 4.553 msec
>> Half stroke: 250 iter in 1.084474 sec = 4.338 msec
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>These seem OK - are they "access times" or are they actually "seek times"?
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i dont know, how can i check?

>Transfer rates:
> outside: 102400 kbytes in 2.075984 sec = 49326 kbytes/sec
> middle: 102400 kbytes in 2.100510 sec = 48750 kbytes/sec
> inside: 102400 kbytes in 2.042313 sec = 50139 kbytes/sec
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>is this good enough?
>It's pretty slow. How many disk drives do you have?
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I have 6 ultra a320 72G 10k discs

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Miguel