Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines. EXT3 performance seems to have improved noticeably on the RAID 0 devices I tested so it might be worth the update.
Some numbers would be good... like bonnie++ results, and some feedback as to what the config of your raid setup is like.
Sorry, I'm not at the office anymore. The configuration of my test CentOS 5 machine looks like this:
Dual Opteron 270 (4 cores total) 2gig RAM OS on a standalone 80gig SATA disk 3Ware 9550SX with 8 x 500gig Seagate 7200rpm SATA drives (firmware is now 3.0.8.00.016)
The RAID device is configured as a large RAID0 device (it's mostly scratch uncompressed video and other temporary data) and is formatted as an EXT3 filesystem. According to bonnie++ (with a data set of 4GB), I was seeing writes around 325mb/sec and reads around 430mb/sec.
Best,