Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance

On Thursday, August 05, 2010, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
wrote:
> Normally I'd agree with the others and recommend RAID10 - but you say
> you have an OLAP workload - if it is *heavily* read biased you may get
> better performance with RAID5 (more effective disks to read from).
> Having said that, your sequential read performance right now is pretty
> low (151 MB/s - should be double this), which may point to an issue
> with this controller. Unfortunately this *may* be important for an OLAP
> workload (seq scans of big tables).

Probably a low (default) readahead limitation. ext3 doesn't help but it can
usually get up over 400MB/sec. Doubt it's the controller.

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