[CentOS] Write performance with 3ware 9550

Bowie Bailey
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:40:47 -0000

Kirk Bocek wrote:
> chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> > I'm doing this from memory as the machine is at another location
> > now.  I think I did this:
> >
> > turned off ncq (per Josh's suggestion)
> > turned on write caching (it's on an oversized ups and the data
> > isn't critical) set storsave to "performance"
> > changed the memory interleave (thanks to kirk's suggestion).  It
> > was off by default. used parted to create gpt disklabel
> > set noatime and one other option that was suggested here for the
> > RAID partition used mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/blah
> >
> > That was it.
>
> Okay, now try installing kernel-module-xfs and xfsutils (located in
> the centosplus repository), run mkfs.xfs on some unused space, mount
> and re-run bonnie++.

I'm sure that would be faster, but I'm sticking to ext3 for now.

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Bowie