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From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB &
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:59:13 -0800
Message-ID: <C04457A1.1F924%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441F161D.7010502@123.com.sv>

Miguel,

On 3/20/06 12:52 PM, "Miguel" <mmiranda@123.com.sv> wrote:

> i have a HP dl380 g3 with array 5i controlled (1+0), these are my results

Another "known bad" RAID controller.  The Smartarray 5i is horrible on Linux
- this is the first BSD result I've seen.
 
> Seek times:
>         Full stroke:      250 iter in   1.138232 sec =    4.553 msec
>         Half stroke:      250 iter in   1.084474 sec =    4.338 msec

These seem OK - are they "access times" or are they actually "seek times"?
Seems like with RAID 10, you should get better by maybe double.

> Transfer rates:
>         outside:       102400 kbytes in   2.075984 sec =    49326 kbytes/sec
>         middle:        102400 kbytes in   2.100510 sec =    48750 kbytes/sec
>         inside:        102400 kbytes in   2.042313 sec =    50139 kbytes/sec
> 
> 
> is this good enough?

It's pretty slow.  How many disk drives do you have?

- Luke





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