Well, if you have any spare space, it would be interesting to see if XFS would help.

BTW, chrism, I replied to you regarding XFS when I meant to reply to Bowie. How *could* I be so impolitic to even *hint* that you use XFS. Oh, the humanity!

Bowie Bailey wrote:

Kirk Bocek wrote:

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chrism@imntv.com wrote:

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I'm doing this from memory as the machine is at another location now. I think I did this:

turned off ncq (per Josh's suggestion) turned on write caching (it's on an oversized ups and the data isn't critical) set storsave to "performance" changed the memory interleave (thanks to kirk's suggestion). It was off by default. used parted to create gpt disklabel set noatime and one other option that was suggested here for the RAID partition used mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/blah

That was it.

Okay, now try installing kernel-module-xfs and xfsutils (located in the centosplus repository), run mkfs.xfs on some unused space, mount and re-run bonnie++.

I'm sure that would be faster, but I'm sticking to ext3 for now.