On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 at 7:29am, Camron W. Fox wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> >> Except for the fact that other FSes on the same hardware get far better >> performance. These were my results using 2 7506-8 boards, each in hardware >> RAID5 mode, with a software RAIDO on top: >> >> write read >> ----- ---- >> ext2 81 180 >> ext3 34 222 >> XFS 109 213 >> > Did you do any other tuning to get the ext2 numbers? I have two > 7506-4 boards that I can only seem to get 13/117 out of. Well, keep in mind that ext2 number was across 2 8 port boards. So, I wouldn't expect to see much better than 20 on a single 4 port. As for tuning, you'll have to read through the thread I referenced before. That testing was over a year ago -- I have trouble remembering what I had for lunch yesterday. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University