…/16 cpu threads) Cisco UCS C250 (12cores/24 cpu threads) Dell PowerEdge R720 (16 cores/32 cpu threads) All are NUMA… first excluded NUMA from the equation. We ran tests on Dell PowerEdge R720 box and varied cpu combinations with taskset. The…
Post: Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB
May 7, 2013 By 32 Comments
… about the hardware: I am going to use new the Dell PowerEdge R420 with two Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5…
Comment: Looking for RAID Controller without Battery Learning problems ?
April 26, 2013 By 11 Comments
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-June/046470.html transparent learn …
Post: Testing the Micron P320h
April 16, 2013 By 7 Comments
…, the benchmarks for this device were performed primarily on a Dell R720 with 192GB of RAM and two Xeon E5-2660…
Post: How reliable RAID really is
June 30, 2006 By 13 Comments
… MySQL In production. Recently I’ve been involved in troubleshooting Dell Poweredge 2850 system running RAID5 using 6GB internal hard drives…” which is automatically done by PERC4 (LSI Logic megaraid) controller. Dell was prompt to ship replacement hard drive and drive was… is not too much advice which could be found in Dell documentation about handling RAID with two failed hard drives. The…
Comment: FusionIO 320GB MLC benchmarks
January 28, 2010 By 19 Comments
… page and are now selling the Duo drive: http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=us&l=en&cs… them attractive. Seems that for the price of 2-3 DELL 2950 with decent RAM we can get 2 FusionIO 320GB…
Comment: MySQL wins C'T Database Contest
September 12, 2006 By 27 Comments
… for the DVD online store test on the Dell PowerEdge2800 at: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/mysql_network_2800.pdf…/driver source(is it different versions of the src:linux.dell.com/dvdstore in the two publication?) and tuning changes causing…
Comment: Looking for RAID Controller without Battery Learning problems ?
March 7, 2013 By 11 Comments
… (vs 72 hours with just battery). Doesn’t seem like Dell provides a product like the Adaptec 5Z series. Here is the info i received from Dell – http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/p/19495387/20316449…
Post: Intel Nehalem vs AMD Opteron shootout in sysbench workload
April 25, 2011 By 41 Comments
… Intel Nehalem (Cisco UCS C250) and second on AMD Opteron (Dell PowerEdge R815), I decided to run some simple sysbench benchmark… total 12 cores / 24 threads of Intel Nehalem X5670, and Dell PowerEdge R815 has 48 cores of AMD Opteron 6168. One… difference is that Cisco is running CentOS 5.5 and Dell R815 is based on RedHat EL 6. I will probably…
Comment: 128GB or RAM finally got cheap
August 5, 2008 By 14 Comments
…. In world of commodity if Dell has systems everybody has similar systems too. I note Dell in particular because we deal a lot with Dell hardware and the fact they tend…
