Kirk Bocek wrote:
> 3Ware's site advertises 300MB/Sec writes using 8 disks on the PCI
> Express version of this card (the 9580 I think.) I'm guessing 4x PCI
> Express has more bandwidth but 133Mhz 64-bit PCI-X is no slouch. The
> only two things I need to change are to put the disks in 3GB/Sec SATA
> mode (they're in 1.5GB/Sec mode right now) and to enable memory
> interleaving on the motherboard (I only have two sticks of memory,
> this M/B needs 4 for interleaving.) But I don't think these things
> should drop me down to the write performance of a single IDE disk.
Has somebody made experience with PCI-X-133MHz and PCI-X-66MHz?
With my board there's not much difference. I even have the feeling, that
driving a 9550SXU-4LP at PCI-X-66MHz is a bit faster than at 133. At
least bonnie++ gives me slightly faster values @ 66.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on improving write performance?
see above. :)
TIA - Michael
--
Michael Kress, kress@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net
P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
