Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium

Arjan van de Ven
2001-12-06T16:18:19Z

Greg Hennessy wrote:
>
> I recently installed a both a Dell dual cpu 2500 server (dual 1.6 ghz
> ia32 chips) and a dell 7150 (dual IA64 chips). My users complained
> that the disk io speed on the itanium seemed very slow, even though
> both servers have a megaraid controller with seagate cheetah
> disks. Bonnie also shows the ia64 machine having worse throughput than
> the ia32 machine.

How much RAM do you have ?