Re: How to improve db performance with $7K?

Yeah, 35Mb per sec is slow for a raid controller, the 3ware mirrored is
about 50Mb/sec, and striped is about 100

Dave

PFC wrote:

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>> With hardware tuning, I am sure we can do better than 35Mb per sec. Also
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>     WTF ?
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>     My Laptop does 19 MB/s (reading <10 KB files, reiser4) !
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>     A recent desktop 7200rpm IDE drive
> # hdparm -t /dev/hdc1
> /dev/hdc1:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  148 MB in  3.02 seconds =  49.01 MB/sec
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> # ll "DragonBall 001.avi"
> -r--r--r--    1 peufeu   users        218M mar  9 20:07 DragonBall
> 001.avi
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> # time cat "DragonBall 001.avi" >/dev/null
> real    0m4.162s
> user    0m0.020s
> sys     0m0.510s
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> (the file was not in the cache)
>     => about 52 MB/s (reiser3.6)
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>     So, you have a problem with your hardware...
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