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To: Greg Hennessy <gsh@cox.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium
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Greg Hennessy wrote:
> 
> I recently installed a  both a Dell dual cpu 2500 server (dual 1.6 ghz
> ia32 chips) and a dell 7150 (dual IA64 chips). My users complained
> that the disk io speed on the itanium seemed very slow, even though
> both servers have a megaraid controller with seagate cheetah
> disks. Bonnie also shows the ia64 machine having worse throughput than
> the ia32 machine.

How much RAM do you have ?
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