Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > chrism at imntv.com wrote: >> 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++. To what end? I'd absolutely NEVER use it in production that way. That's *plenty* fast for me. Cheers,