Re: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-30 Thread Eric Jennings
Hi Russell- Can you give us a command to call (using bonnie++ binaries) that will give a more real-world test of filesystem and disk performance? I'd like to see how bonnie++ differs from hdparm in results. Thanks- Eric On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:30, Thomas Kirk wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 0

Re: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:30, Thomas Kirk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:07:16PM +0100, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > > You should probably try to time the disk reads, not the buffer cache... > > > > hdparm -t > > Yes the disk reads is a more realistic real world test : > > /dev/sda5: > Timing buffer-

Re: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-30 Thread Jason Lim
On a pretty loaded system with a 3ware 74xx series card, we're getting: # hdparm -tT /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.65 seconds =196.92 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.44 seconds = 44.44 MB/sec This seems to be more in-line with expectations. Sin

Re: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
> "TH" == Thomas Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] TH> /dev/sdb5: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.95 seconds TH> =134.74 MB/sec TH> /dev/sdb5: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.42 seconds = TH> 18.71 MB/sec TH> When it comes to real world test my scsibased

Re: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-30 Thread Thomas Kirk
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:30:16AM +0100, Thomas Kirk wrote: > Yes the disk reads is a more realistic real world test : > > /dev/sda5: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.23 seconds =104.07 MB/sec > guf:~# hdparm -t /dev/sda5 > > /dev/sda5: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.84

Re: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-30 Thread Thomas Kirk
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:07:16PM +0100, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > You should probably try to time the disk reads, not the buffer cache... > > hdparm -t Yes the disk reads is a more realistic real world test : /dev/sda5: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.23 seconds =104.07 MB/sec guf:~

RE: Debian Backup Server

2002-11-30 Thread Domonkos Czinke
Hi, If you want to backup your mailserver to another machine, you should use netcat, cat for eg. cat /dev/hda1 | netcat -l -p 1234 << do this on the mailserver netcat 1234 > /backup/backup.img << do this on the backup server Cheers, Domonkos Czinke -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

Re: Debian Backup Server

2002-11-30 Thread Васил Колев
I have 2 ideas: You can use the same disk drive as the primary, and do a 'dd if=drive1 of=drive2' , that will make full backup Or, the way i do on one of my servers, use rsync , i use it this way: rsync -logptvr /etc /var /usr /home /backup0/serv (the last parameter is the directory where you mou

Debian Backup Server

2002-11-30 Thread rizal
Can anybody pls help me on how to have a full back up of a Mail Server (Running on Debian and Exim) ... I want to have a full backup of the mail Server on a different drive with all the users and directory permissions the same with the original server. Thanks Rizal "If you think you play