[H-GEN] Linux file server

Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com
Fri Jul 2 04:06:52 EDT 2004


On Friday 02 July 2004 17:41, Russell Stuart wrote:
>
> David Jericho wrote:
> > Russell Stuart wrote:
> > If your system does heavy disk IO, I highly recommend a SCSI
> > style controller, or a second processor.
>
> As it happens, all the Dell's do have at least two processors.
> They aren't small machines.
>
> According to Dell's own internal benchmarks, you are better
> off on a file server without a Raid card speed wise.  This

I followed some of that discussion on the Linux Poweredge mail 
list, and one point that I noted was to do with the application 
load on the CPUs.  As I remember, if there were plenty of CPU 
cycles available then those benchmarks certainly held up.  
However, if the CPUs were very busy, then hardware RAID was 
faster.

I suspect its another case of what the application is.  One 
solution is not going to be the best for every application.





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