[CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-01 Thread Austin Godber
Hello, Does anyone have experience using a 3ware 9650SE series raid controller on CentOS 6.0? I am getting very sporadic throughput with moderately sized files (0.5-2GB) on ext3. I have tried most of the mount time tuning options: * noatime * trying different journal types * setting commit=120

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-01 Thread Austin Godber
using XFS or something else? Austin On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Marcelo Beckmann < marcelo.beckm...@webers.com.br> wrote: > Em 01-09-2011 17:41, Austin Godber escreveu: > > > > === tw_cli info c2 > > > > Unit Un

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-01 Thread Austin Godber
ackup unit for the card. Thanks, everyone for their suggestions. For now I am happy with the situation, but I'd be interested to hear the experiences of others. Austin On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Craig White wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Austin Godber wrote: > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-01 Thread Austin Godber
e a > bbc, otherwise you are risking your data since it can/will cache > writes...just something to keep in mind. > > On 9/1/11, Austin Godber wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I would if I could. I'd also probably try > > another fil

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and 3ware 9650SE series RAID Performance

2011-09-02 Thread Austin Godber
uld be > re-examining your storage strategy. > > Craig > > On Sep 1, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Austin Godber wrote: > > > At this point the card is pretty much useless without that cache enabled. > Without recommendations for making writes of 256MB or larger files faster > witho