On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 at 4:22pm, Bowie Bailey wrote
I have two identical servers. The only difference is that the first one has Maxtor 250G drives and the second one has Seagate 320G drives. OS: CentOS-4.4 (fully patched) CPU: dual Opteron 280 Memory: 16GB Raid card: 3ware 9550Sx-8LP Raid volume: 4-disk Raid 5 with NCQ and Write Cache enabled On the first server I have decent performance. Nothing spectacular, but good enough. The second one has about 1/3 the write speed. I can't find any difference between the systems. Both of them have the same stripe size, both have ext3 filesystems, both have write caching and NCQ turned on. I have already increased the read ahead setting to 16384 on both servers.
Turn off NCQ. Last I knew, this was still 3ware's recommendation. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos