Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:11:59 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: vallo@matti.ee, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <v0422081db537899d3de7@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000504214714.A10267@myhakas.matti.ee> References: <20000504210635.A8681@myhakas.matti.ee> <200005041922.MAA01426@mass.cdrom.com> <20000504214714.A10267@myhakas.matti.ee>
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At 9:47 PM +0200 2000/5/4, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > Exactly, but I always think that big systems are for big work and are > always near to saturation on peak hours and the likelyhood of disk > failures and degraded mode is in the same timeslot. It's been my experience that the one thing I've always got on any of the servers I run is plenty of spare CPU time, even if everything else is maxxed-out. Thus, the very minimal overhead of vinum would not be an issue (even on my most heavily used systems, I haven't been able to measure the amount of additional workload it adds), although the greater I/O bandwidth and latency involved in directly writing parity information, etc... would be. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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