Re: 3ware disk latency?

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Wed Jul 26 2006 - 18:08:04 EST



On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, adam radford wrote:

On 7/26/06, dean gaudet <dean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

unfortunately when i did the experiment i neglected to perform
simultaneous tests on more than one 3ware unit on the same controller. i
got great results from a raid1 or from a raid10 (even a raid5)... but
never i only tested one unit at a time.


Did you try setting /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/cmd_per_lun to 256 / num_units ?

-Adam
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Speaking of this does anyone having any tuning guides for running 10 disk raid 5's on this controller? And as far as ext3 goes, what are the best optimizations?

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