On Feb 13, 2008 5:02 AM, Tore Halset <halset(at)pvv(dot)ntnu(dot)no> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I think I started that discussion. We ended up buying a Dell 2900 with
> PERC 6/i and 10 * 145GB SAS 3,5" 15KRpm discs. 6 of the SAS discs are
> in a raid 10 for the database, 2 in a mirror for the wal and the last
> 2 in a mirror for the OS. We get 350MB/s writing and 380MB/s reading
> to/from the raid 10 area using dd. The OS is Ubuntu and the filesystem
> for the raid 10 is ext3.

Those are decent numbers.  Can you do a bonnie++ run and post the
results (specifically interested in seeks)?

merlin

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