On Friday 03 March 2006 17:26, Jim Perrin wrote: > > Yeah, we've also seen performance issues with raid5 on the 9500 series > > products. The benchmarks we run look good, but when we've put them into > > production file server environments, the performance has been > > disappointing. With 500GB disks now available for $4.95 down at the local > > Walgreen's, we've gone to raid 1 and are _very_ pleased with the > > performance. Although it's been discouraged on this list, we're using > > xfs and the unsupported CentOS kernels and haven't had any problems. > > We're anxiously waiting the 'new, improved' xfs drivers for CentOS :) :) > > The 9550 has better performance over the 9500, but I don't have any > real numbers to back up the differences. I have close to identical machines with 9500 and 9550 in testbed so if people have some special numbers they'd like compared I could maybe be persuaded to run it. /Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellstr?m | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060303/a46de3a7/attachment.bin