Hi,
> How about software RAID?
>
> Linux software RAID appears to perform better than most RAID
> controllers except perhaps those that can do read interleaving
> for RAID1 (I believe some 3ware controllers can do it). Linux
> RAID mirroring doesn't do read interleaving, only read
> balancing, w
On Jan 21, 2006, at 8:09 AM, Sander Steffann wrote:
Dell has used (and rebranded) Adaptec and LSI controllers for their
PERC series, and I agree that the Adaptec controllers perform
badly. As far as I know the LSI based controllers are quite good
(and some come with 256MB battery backed ca
At 10:01 AM 1/23/2006 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
I'm not sure if it's Dell's BIOS on the mobos, or something with the LSI
cards, but the performance was substandard.
So if you're working somewhere that you simply have to use Dell (not
uncommon), at least make sure you get the LSI based RAID co
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 07:09, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I would suppliment this with just saying that your controller card is
> > your performance,
> > the only cards I've seen score well on linux, and people have
> > expressed on this list for SCSI are the LSI card, for SATA, LSI, 3ware
>
Hi,
I would suppliment this with just saying that your controller card is
your performance,
the only cards I've seen score well on linux, and people have
expressed on this list for SCSI are the LSI card, for SATA, LSI, 3ware
(now AMCC) and Areca claim good linux support and seem to work well.
St
I would suppliment this with just saying that your controller card is
your performance,
the only cards I've seen score well on linux, and people have
expressed on this list for SCSI are the LSI card, for SATA, LSI, 3ware
(now AMCC) and Areca claim good linux support and seem to work well.
Steer ful
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:46, Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Are there any pointers for RAID tuning (RAID5) with PostgreSQL 8.0?!
There's a bi monthly conversation on this subject here and in the
perform list. I'd recommend searching the perform list on the subject.
Here's the short ve
