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March 5, 2008

Post: RAID System performance surprises

Posted by peter |
… Pretty typical controller from Dell installed on PowerEdge 1950, 2950 etc …Build in Battery has to pass through learning cycle every 3…the docs. During this time battery backed up cache will be…down for maintenance if this learning process can’t be scheduled…

Post: Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs

Posted by peter |
…’m testing this on has 256MB BBU (Battery Backed up Cache) on RAID controller so…data size a bit you will well learn how your cache behaves. Were even …If you’re wondering which hardware I used for benchmarks – it is Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC5 and 6 …

March 2, 2009

Post: SSD, XFS, LVM, fsync, write cache, barrier and lost transactions

Posted by Vadim |
…X25-E SSD drive into our lab. I attached it to our Dell PowerEdge R900. The story making it running… not start with two RAID controllers (Perc/6i and HighPoint 2300). The problem … put SSD into RAID controller with battery-backup-ed write cache, but I …

March 5, 2008

Comment: RAID System performance surprises

Posted by peter |
… when next Learn cycle to be: [root@DB01 ~]# omreport storage battery controller=0 … PERC 5/i Integrated (Embedded) Controller PERC 5/i Integrated (Slot Embedded) ID… : 4 days 4 hours Maximum Learn Delay : 7 days 0 hours The …

February 2, 2009

Post: Pretending to fix broken group commit

Posted by Vadim |
… enable replication (log-bin) on server without BBU (battery backup unit) your InnoDB write performance in concurrent load… is sysbench OLTP load). I tested it on Dell PowerEdge R900 with RAID 10 in WriteThrough mode to emulate absence of BBU. With …

January 30, 2009

Post: Linux schedulers in tpcc like benchmark

Posted by Vadim |
… cfq to noop solved their InnoDB IO problems. I ran tpcc scripts against XtraDB on our Dell PowerEdge R900 server (16 cores, 8 disks in RAID10, controller Perc/6i with BBU) to compare cfq, deadline, noop and anticipatory (…

June 21, 2010

Comment: RAID System performance surprises

Posted by Sean Kelly |
… (on cent) that gives enough info to go on to disable battery relearn. This guy wrote it up and his instructions are explicit and effective. http://yo61.com/dell-drac-bbu-auto-learn-tests-kill-disk-performance.html -sean

June 30, 2006

Post: How reliable RAID really is

Posted by peter |
… I’ve been involved in troubleshooting Dell Poweredge 2850 system running RAID5 using … by PERC4 (LSI Logic megaraid) controller. Dell was prompt to ship replacement hard…provide you with such feature. Happily Dell Bios has little option which allows…

June 12, 2007

Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions

Posted by peter |
… performing hardware with good price/performance. We use a lot of Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 6 hard drives … are satisfied that well by vendors. Dell for example for some reason failed …hard drives in the case in Dell range, while you can by appropriate…

August 4, 2008

Post: 128GB or RAM finally got cheap

Posted by peter |
…usually go to “Elite” servers on Dell web site but looking at … today I went to check Dell Poweredge R900. This monster takes …(just as we usually configure PowerEdge 2950) with 128GB of RAM …$16000. This means talking to Dell Sales rep it can purchases …