Motherboard query...

Andrew Klaassen ak at dkp.com
Thu Feb 28 15:11:03 PST 2002


On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:54:24PM -0500,
Andrew Klaassen wrote:

> (We've currently got 8 drives in one of these cases in
> production.  We had to drill extra holes in the center cage to
> get proper spacing between the drives, and mount an extra fan in
> front.)

In case you're interested in performance numbers, here's a
bonnie++ run from that box (I skipped the character read/write
tests):

Version 1.01d       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
thor.dkp.com     2G           44702  44 21162  26 84351  59 361.0   3
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   546  96 +++++ +++ 17984  90   554  98 +++++ +++  3241  97
thor.dkp.com,2G,,,44702,44,21162,26,,,84351,59,361.0,3,16,546,96,+++++,+++,17984,90,554,98,+++++,+++,3241,97

Looks pretty good to me...

Andrew Klaassen




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