Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:26:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>
Reply-To: spamtrap@knobisoft.de
Subject: Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Peter zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, mingo@redhat.com
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--- Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:

> 
> I saw a bulletin from HP recently that sugggested disabling the 
> write-back cache on some Smart Array controllers as a workaround
> because 
> it reduced performance in applications that did large bulk writes. 
> Presumably they are planning on releasing some updated firmware that 
> fixes this eventually..
> 
> -- 
> Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
> To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca
> Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/
> 
Robert,

 just checked it out. At least with the "6i", you do not want to
disable the WBC :-) Performance really goes down the toilet for all
cases.

 Do you still have a pointer to that bulletin?

Cheers
Martin

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Martin Knoblauch
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