Kirk Bocek wrote:
Responding to several of your posts here. I understand your need for stability, but can't you set StorSave down and see what it does to your speed?
I could, but I don't see the point. I have one machine with StorSave set at "Protect" which writes at 60MB/Sec. The other identical system which is also set to "Protect" only writes at 20MB/Sec. Therefore, there must be something else at work.
As we speak, I have swapped the hard drives in these two systems and I am running another test. This will at least tell me if the problem is based in the hard drives & OS or elsewhere in hardware.
Some of my 95MB/Sec was achieved with some of the suggested ext3 journal settings. Look back through my previous thread.
Memory interleaving on my system (Supermicro X7DVL-E) is turned on automatically when you install two pairs of memory sticks. With 16GB on your system, I *assume* you have at least 4 sticks. Check the manual and see if there is a BIOS setting.
I found the interleaving settings in the BIOS. Both systems currently have it turned off, so I haven't touched it at this point. Once I have determined why the performance is so different between these two machines, I may experiment with that setting to see if it helps.
Right now, I am not looking for maximum performance. I am just trying to determine why there is a 3x difference in write performance between two identical machines.