Re: Webserver with RAID-5 - performance problem

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 08:53 +0100 Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a new server which we want to use as a webserver. The following hardware components are included: - Intel XEON 3GHz - 2GB RAM - Intel SRCU42L RAID Controller SCSI - 3 Fujitsu u320 SCSI discs in a RAID-5 array

Re: Webserver with RAID-5 - performance problem

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 13:38 +0100 Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:40:37AM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: Additionally Linux uses 128K disk I/O blocks, if you've built your RAID array with any other size stripe you may suffer pathological performanc

Re: Webserver with RAID-5 - performance problem

2004-12-15 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:40:37AM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > Additionally Linux uses 128K disk I/O > blocks, if you've built your RAID array with any other size stripe you may > suffer pathological performance loss. Do you mean that that driver uses such blocks, or that linux generally uses

Re: Webserver with RAID-5 - performance problem

2004-12-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo, 15-12-2004 te 08:53 +0100, schreef Andrej: > The problem is, that we've been running hdparm on the RAID device with > these result: > > hdparm -t /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 138 MB in 3.04 seconds = 45.39 MB/sec > > > The result is not looking good. A w

Webserver with RAID-5 - performance problem

2004-12-14 Thread Andrej
We have a new server which we want to use as a webserver. The following hardware components are included: - Intel XEON 3GHz - 2GB RAM - Intel SRCU42L RAID Controller SCSI - 3 Fujitsu u320 SCSI discs in a RAID-5 array We've installed Debian Sarge. The problem is, that we've been running hdparm on