chrism@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Kirk Bocek wrote:
> > I saw a definite improvement by turning off NCQ and setting StorSave
> > to 'Balanced.' Are these 1.5GB/Sec or 3.0GB/Sec SATA drives? During
> > my testing I changed from non-interleaved memory and 1.5GB to
> > interleaved and 3.0GB. Made a big difference in bonnie++ results.
> > Unfortunately, I can't say which was more important.
> >
> > If you have the patience, read through my recent (but lengthy)
> > thread on the 3Ware 9550 titled "Calling All FS Fanatics." There's
> > a lot of good info from many helpful people. I've only gotten full
> > performance using JFS or XFS.
> >
>
> I'm doing this from memory as the machine is at another location now.
> I think I did this:
>
> turned off ncq (per Josh's suggestion)
Tried that, it made a small improvement (see my previous post).
> turned on write caching (it's on an oversized ups and the data isn't
> critical)
Write caching is on. I've got a BBU, so the data is protected.
> set storsave to "performance"
I prefer to leave this one as is to take advantage of the write
journaling.
> changed the memory interleave (thanks to kirk's suggestion). It was
> off by default.
This one I would like to try. Can you tell me where I can make the
change?
> used parted to create gpt disklabel
What is the advantage of gpt over msdos? Can I make this change
without recreating the filesystem?
> set noatime and one other option that was suggested here for the RAID
> partition
Anyone know if noatime is recommended for a filesystem containing an
Oracle database?
What was the other option?
> used mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/blah
I used 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/blah'. It created 4K blocks.
> That was it.
>
> Also, I tried the same array as a RAID0 device on the same box and the
> performance was approximately the same (maybe ever so slightly
> faster).
Raid0 should be faster, particularly with writes since it doesn't have
to calculate parity.
--
Bowie
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