On May 19, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Anjan Dave wrote:
> As far as disk I/O is concerned for flushing the buffers out, I am
> not ruling out the combination of Dell PERC4 RAID card
>
That'd be my first guess as to I/O speed issues. I have some dell
hardware that by all means should be totally blowing out my other
boxes in speed, but the I/O sucks out the wazoo. I'm migrating to
opteron based DB servers with LSI branded cards (not the Dell re-
branded ones).
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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