Re: RHEL 3 x86 and LSI Megaraid

[Xose Vazquez Perez <xose wanadoo es>]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> Interestingly enough, it seems that dd tests are a bit slower in RHL9, 
> while hdparm is much faster.  I'll run tiobench to compare.  I'll also 
> run the tests in a pure RHL9 system.

Red Hat Linux 9 brings an ancient driver(1.18f). RHEL 3 drivers are newer
and they were optimized by RH, plus it has a better SCSI and VM subsystems.
Thus RHEL must be faster, at least in theory :-)

hdparm is not and very accurate test. Try other (bonnie++, iozone, fsx-linux,
createfiles, ...)

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