Re: [Xen-users] development machine with xen on gentoo

[Stephan Wentz <stephan@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Anderson wrote:
> Stephan Wentz wrote:
> > I think that the RAID controller has to do with it (3ware 9550SX), but 
> > I have no clue on how to get more details to find the bottleneck.
> I think you are correct. I have had some performance issues with 3ware 
> controllers in the past.
> What file system, have you done any of the 3ware tweaks? Your best bet 
> is to start tracking down performance issues on the controller first off.
> Do you have a BBU? if not you should get one in my tests a BBU on 3ware 
> will increate write performance by up to 10%. What is storesave set to 
> on the raid controller?
I did filesystem tests with ext3 and xfs, xfs provided better performance.

Haven't tried any 3ware tweaks - didn't even know that they exists ;-)
Can you provide a link or something where I can get information?

Thanks for the BBU-hint - we will order one tomorrow.

Stephan

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