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From: "Marc" <linux-raid@liquid-nexus.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor RAID5 performance on new SMP system
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:56:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041018045338.M59852@liquid-nexus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41733C14.8020000@sauce.co.nz>

That thread is pretty old and I couldn't really find many references (on 
google) about it. Perhaps its been fixed in later revisions of the AMD-768?

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:44:20 +1300
Subject: Re: Poor RAID5 performance on new SMP system

> Marc wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently upgraded my file server to a dual AMD 2800+ on a Tyan Tiger 
MPX 
> > motherboard. The previous server was using a PIII 700 on an Intel 440BX 
> > motherboard. I basically just took the IDE drives and their controllers 
> > across to the new machine. The strange thing is that the RAID-5 
performance 
> > is worse than before! Have a look at the stats below:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> Unfortunately you have a lemon :(
> 
> I spent some time trying to get acceptable performance out of an 
> Adaptec SCSI RAID 0 on the 32 bit, 33MHz bus of one of these boards 
> and eventually found this:
> 
> http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?
s=c8040a4e9c9b6390dd389f1b3cca32de&threadid=31211&perpage=15
> 
> The executive summary is
> 
> "After testing AMD determined that the problem was identified as a 
> bandwidth issue(this was startling information). It appears that the 
> motherboard has a bandwidth limitation of 25MB/s on PCI devices that 
> are connected through the AMD 768 Southbridge."
> 
> This was in line with my findings.
> 
> I have not tried, but it is possible that a 64 bit 66MHz IDE card 
> will be OK.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
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------- End of Original Message -------


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18  2:11 Poor RAID5 performance on new SMP system Marc
2004-10-18  3:37 ` Guy
2004-10-18  4:04   ` Marc
2004-10-18  5:12     ` Guy
2004-10-18  3:44 ` Richard Scobie
2004-10-18  4:56   ` Marc [this message]
2004-10-18 17:26   ` Marc Marais
2004-10-18 18:41     ` Richard Scobie
2004-10-18 20:45       ` Guy
2004-10-20  3:24       ` Mark Hahn
2004-10-18  5:37 ` Gerd Knops
2004-10-18  6:12   ` Guy
2004-10-18  7:33     ` Marc

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