Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 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.
I can try that, but when I tested on the first server, I found that
disabling NCQ increased the read performance by 10M/s and decreased
the write performance by 10M/s. Maybe I'll get different results from
the Seagate drives.
--
Bowie
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