On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:58:53PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> sudog@sudog.com writes:
> > 
> > hello folks--so as my final bit I'd like to know if there are any
> > other suggestions for pulling up the performance on my
> > tens-of-millions-of-hits-a-day NetBSD servers..  Here's what I've got
> > so far:
> > 
> > 1. basic kernel tuning NKMEMPAGES, NMBCLUSTERS, etc based on avail ram
> > 2. put most-accessed stuff on non-RAID partitions
> 
> If there are major performance problems with RAIDframe, I want to hear 
> about them...  Putting data on even a RAID 1 set should result in writes 
> nearly as fast as the underlying media, and for many reads, faster reads
> than any of the underlying media could provide on their own...  

Yes, at last on my file server with RAID-1 I get better performances out
of raidframe than single-disk access.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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