Re: [Testperf-general] dbt2 & opteron performance

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:15:31PM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:17:25 -0500
> "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:32:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > > This 4-way has 8GB of memory and four Adaptec 2200s controllers attached
> > > > to 80 spindles (eight 10-disk arrays). For those familiar with the
> > > > schema, here is a visual of the disk layout:
> > > > http://www.osdl.org/projects/dbt2dev/results/dev4-015/layout-6.html
> >
> > Have you by-chance tried it with the logs and data just going to
> > seperate RAID10s? I'm wondering if a large RAID10 would do a better job
> > of spreading the load than segmenting things to specific drives.
>
> No, haven't tried that. That would reduce my number of spindles as I
> scale up. ;) I have the disks attached as JBODs and use LVM2 to stripe
> the disks together.

I'm confused... why would it reduce the number of spindles? Is
everything just striped right now? You could always s/RAID10/RAID0/.
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