On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 22:22, Avery wrote: > I am running a PowerEdge 2650, 1gig of ram, raid 5, single xeon 2.4 Ghz processor, with a > PERC3, DC, 128MB, 1 Internal & 1 External Channel > I am using the megaraid driver. > I am running kernel-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl > > [root@mail /]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.14 seconds = 19.11 MB/sec > > This is slow as hell. I am running fedora core 1. I ran this machine on suse 8.1 as a > test and it was around 125 MB/sec. I am testing this machine out with fedora before I > buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES for a full production server. Anyone have any ideas? is the megaraid2 driver any faster? rob.
