5 Oct
2006
5 Oct
'06
7:19 a.m.
Kirk Bocek wrote:
I finally figured out my slowdown problem: I had somehow turned off write-caching on the 3Ware controller. Hoo-Boy! Does that kill throughput! What the heck is that option for anyway?
Err... are you sure you want to turn on write-caching? You will have filesystem corruption in case of a power-down, panic or other crashes then. It does help to have a battery backup on the 3ware card, assuming it is smart enough to write the changes to disk before the OS starts.
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And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil.
The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.