Re: Whence the Opterons?

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Whence the Opterons?
Date: 2005-05-13 21:22:13
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C74A9@algol.sollentuna.se
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>> Question, though: is HP still using their proprietary RAID
>card? And, if so,
>> have they fixed its performance problems?
>
>According to my folks here, we're using the CCISS controllers, so I
>guess they are. The systems are nevertheless performing very well --
>we did a load test that was pretty impressive. Also, Chris Browne
>pointed me to this for the drivers:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/cciss/

That driver is for all the remotely modern HP cards. I think the one
with performance problems was the builtin one they user to have
(SmartArray 5i). AFAIK, the new builtins (6i) are a lot better. And the
high-end add-on cards I've never had any performance problems with -
linux and windows both.

//Magnus

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