[CentOS] CentOS5, kernel update and 3ware driver

Tue Apr 17 19:14:57 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

Florin Andrei wrote:
> I'm using CentOS5 64bit on a system with a 3ware 9650SE card.

What kind of performance are you seeing with this card?  I've just 
installed CentOS5 64-bit on one of my sandbox systems today and it's got 
a 9550SX with 8 500gig Seagate barracudas in RAID0 config.  Performance 
seems to have improved a bit compared to 4.4.  I'm now seeing about 
200MB/sec for writes and about 405MB/sec for reads.  Fortunately, the 
9550 driver seems to be included in the kernel so doing updates hasn't 
broken things for me.  :) 

I noticed a lot of 3rd party apps haven't caught up yet so there are 
still issues with missing/conflicting libs for all the naughty bits 
(various mpeg codecs/tools/players/etc).

Cheers,