Re: Tuning Linux for high-speed disk subsystems

From: Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 15:00:28 EST

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On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> After some testing at Compaq's lab in Oslo, I've come to the conclusion
> that Linux cannot scale higher than about 30-40MB/sec in or out of a
> hardware or software RAID-0 set with several stripe/chunk sizes tried out.

We managed >100mb/sec from a raid5 IDE setup, SMP athlon on Tyan S2460
with promise controllers.

-Dan

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