Re: [PERFORM] Dell Perc/6

2008-02-13 Thread Tore Halset
On Feb 13, 2008, at 20:45, Tore Halset wrote: The box have 16GB of ram, but my original test file was only 25GB. Sorry. Going to 33GB lowered the numbers for writing. Here you have some samples. % sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8k count=400 && sync" 327680

Re: [PERFORM] Dell Perc/6

2008-02-13 Thread Tore Halset
On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:06, Dave Cramer wrote: On 13-Feb-08, at 5:02 AM, Tore Halset wrote: Hello. I think I started that discussion. We ended up buying a Dell 2900 with PERC 6/i and 10 * 145GB SAS 3,5" 15KRpm discs. 6 of the SAS discs are in a raid 10 for the database, 2 in a mirro

Re: [PERFORM] Dell Perc/6

2008-02-13 Thread Tore Halset
Hello. I think I started that discussion. We ended up buying a Dell 2900 with PERC 6/i and 10 * 145GB SAS 3,5" 15KRpm discs. 6 of the SAS discs are in a raid 10 for the database, 2 in a mirror for the wal and the last 2 in a mirror for the OS. We get 350MB/s writing and 380MB/s reading to

Re: [PERFORM] dell versus hp

2007-11-06 Thread Tore Halset
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:36 , Claus Guttesen wrote: All of our existing servers are from Dell, but I want to look at some other options as well. We are currently looking at rack boxes with 8 internal SAS discs. Two mirrored for OS, Two mirrored for WAL and 4 in raid 10 for the base. Here are o

Re: [PERFORM] dell versus hp

2007-11-06 Thread Tore Halset
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:53 , Dimitri Fontaine wrote: Le mardi 06 novembre 2007, Tore Halset a écrit : 1) Dell 2900 (5U) 8 * 146 GB SAS 15Krpm 3,5" 8GB ram Perc 5/i. battery backup. 256MB ram. 2 * 4 Xeon 2,66GHz In fact you can add 2 hot-plug disks on this setup, connected to the fron

[PERFORM] dell versus hp

2007-11-06 Thread Tore Halset
Hello. We are planning to move from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL for our production system. Bot read and write performance are equally important. Writing is the bottleneck of our current MS SQL Server system. All of our existing servers are from Dell, but I want to look at some other opt

Re: [PERFORM] Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

2004-08-26 Thread Tore Halset
On Aug 26, 2004, at 14:07, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: The unit itself is built very well, and the admin tools are very good (OS X only, though). It and the The admin tools are supposed to work cross platform. From Apples website: "This Java-based application provides an intuitive interface for creat