It's not always bandwidth (raw IO) that is the problem. We've got
a couple clusters where a 3ware 64xx w/4 IBM GXPs in raid0 cannot
keep up with the "load" of Mysql doing lots of ops on lots of files.
Yeah, it's not just how much load, but what kind of load. Streaming
a 3 gig file into memory, then dumping a 3 gig file to disk is a lot
different than opening 3000 1 meg files, twitching a bit and then
closing them.
I like our 3ware controllers, they've allowed us to migrate a off a
whole bunch of Sun Hardware, and saved us a whole bunch of money,
but on our loaded machines, we've lost a lot of sleep (of course
some of that seems to be due to memory corruption issues as well.)
> > PS: I once turned down a 360MHz Ultra10 in favor of a 167MHz Ultra1 because
> > of the absolutely shitty IDE performance. The U1 was actually faster
> > at compiling software. (Solaris 2.6, btw)
> yeah, if Sun can't make IDE scream, then no one can eh?
If SCSI had the economy of scale that IDE enjoys, it would be a lot
cheaper than it is now. Not as cheap as IDE currently is, but still
a lot cheaper.
ATA/IDE is trying pick and choose the best parts of SCSI w/out
picking up the costs--which is an admirable goal. The question is
how close can they get w/out incurring the costs?
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