Re: getting count for a specific querry

On Apr 8, 2005 3:42 PM, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:35, Bob Henkel wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 2005 3:23 PM, Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Joel Fradkin wrote:
> >
> > > I set up the data on 4 10k scsi drives in a powervault and
> > my wal on 2
> > > 15k
> > > drives. I am using links to those from the install
> > directory. It
> > > starts and
> > > stops ok this way, but maybe it should be different.
> > >
> >
> > Your problem might just be the choice of using a Dell RAID
> > controller.
> > I have a 1 year old box connected to a 14 disk powervault
> > (PowerEdge
> > 2650) and it is dog slow compared to a dual opteron with 8
> > disks that
> > is replacing it. It is all I/O for me, and the dell's just
> > are not
> > known for speedy I/O.
> >
> > Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
> > +1-301-869-4449 x806
> >
> >
> >
> > But that is relative I would think. Is the Dell RAID much faster than
> > my desktop SATA drive with no RAID? I'm by any means as knowledgeable
> > about I/O setup as many of you are but my 2 cents wonders if the Dell
> > RAID is really that much slower than a competitively priced/speced
> > alternative? Would Joel's problems just fade away if he wasn't using
> > a Dell RAID?
>
> My experience with the 3i controllers (See my earlier post) was that my
> old Pentium Pro200x2 machine with 512 meg ram and a generic Ultra Wide
> SCSI card and a half dozen drives running software RAID 5 was faster.
>
> Seriously. So was my P-II-350 desktop with the same controller, and an
> older Dual P-III-750 with only UltraSCSI running in a RAID-1 mirror set.
>
> The 3I is REALLY slow (or at least WAS slow) under linux.
>

Interesting... Maybe Joel after a weekend of rest can try it on a different
setup even if that different setup is just a power users development machine
to see if he has same or worse timing results. Be wonderful if it magically
sped up.