From: Oliver Antwerpen (antwerpen_at_netsquare.de)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 12:23:50 CEST
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:23:50 +0200 From: Oliver Antwerpen <antwerpen@netsquare.de> Message-Id: <20070402102407.6B17712205@mx1.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: catastrophic disk-performance on SLES10 with SATA drives
Hi Markus,
Generally speaking, this will improve the performance very much. The
integrated SAs don't have Write-Back-Cache, so the data has to be
'written-thru'. The 128MB cache module extends the controller's memory
to 192MB read/write cache. The Euros will be a good investment.
Oliver
-- Si vis pacem, para bellum! The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Markus Roeffen schrieb: > Hi Andreas, > hi all, > > thanks for posting your experience in the mailinglist. > > It seems that you are right. There are some people who have > difficulties with the SmartArray-Controller on HP ProLiant DL360 G4p. > Our controller is a SmartArray-Controller 6i with latest firmware. > > I've got news from the HP support team. HP suggested us to buy an > additional module for the SmartArray Controller: > > HP Battery Backed Write Cache Enabler Kit - für ProLiant > for Smart Array 6i: optional 128MB BBWC > > According to HP there are more options with this module in the HP > Array Configuration Utility panel available (Read/write IO cache ratio). > > Has anyone on this mailinglist experience with the BBWC module? Could > this module solve our problems? > > Best regards > Markus > > matilda matilda wrote: >> Hi all, hi Heiko, >> >> it's really interesting to hear that there are more people out there >> being not too satisfied by the I/O-Performance of the >> SmartArray-Controller. >> Is it a SmartArray-Controller you're talking about? >> We're using it with SLES9 and have/had problems in certain >> circumstances. >> >> Would like to heare if you're also talking about the >> SmartArray-Controller. >> >> Best regards >> Andreas Mock >> > -- Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sles-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sles-e-help@suse.com
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