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Subject: Re: iowait problems on 2.6, not on 2.4
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Antonio Larrosa Jiménez <antlarr@tedial.com> wrote:
>
> My next test will be to do the "dd tests" on one of the internal hard disks 
>  and use it for the data instead of the external raid.

That's a logical next step.  The reduced read bandwith on the raid array
should be fixed up before we can go any further.  I don't recall any
reports of qlogic fc-scsi performance regressions though.