Re: [PERFORM] hardare config question

2006-05-01 Thread Erik Myllymaki
power cable, or an accidental power cycle from exercising the wrong switch. :) Both are probably more common causes of failure than a total power outage. Erik Myllymaki wrote: I have been in discussion with 3ware support and after adjusting some settings, the 3ware card in RAID 1 gets better

Re: [PERFORM] hardare config question

2006-05-01 Thread Erik Myllymaki
good points, thanks. Tom Arthurs wrote: UPS does not protect against the tech behind the rack unplugging the power cable, or an accidental power cycle from exercising the wrong switch. :) Both are probably more common causes of failure than a total power outage. Erik Myllymaki wrote: I

Re: [PERFORM] hardare config question

2006-05-01 Thread Erik Myllymaki
a choice of losing all of your data the next time the system shuts down uncleanly but being fast, or of running slow, or of fixing the applications to use chunkier transactions. -- Mark On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 13:36 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Erik Myllymaki wrote: When

[PERFORM] hardare config question

2006-04-28 Thread Erik Myllymaki
This is a question that I also posted on Dell hardware forums, and I realize it probably belongs there more than here. But I am thinking someone might have some anecdotal information that could help me and this post may help someone else down the road. My PowerEdge 1800 (dual 3ghz Xeon, 3GB ra