Subject: Re: [vserver] Fixed -> Re: [vserver] Hard time with IO bottleneck
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:50:22 -0500

On Mon May 11 2009, Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > On 08/05/2009, at 08.00, Markus Fischer wrote:
> >> it's been *quite* a while, however just for the record, I was able to
> >> fix this issue.
> >>
> >> The RAID controller, a "LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X
> >> Fusion-MPT SAS", had by default "write caching" disabled.
> >>
> >> Once enabled, the throughput jumped from 5MB/sec to 25MB/sec ....
> >>
> >> Here's the complete story of my tragedy:
> >> http://serverfault.com/questions/1276/severe-write-performance-problem
> > 
> > "This site is currently in private beta testing.
> > If you've been contacted about the beta, please make sure you have
> > cookies enabled and enter your credentials below to proceed. "
> 
> Darn, that's embarrassing! 
>

The person that writes an e-mail client with a "retract" button
right next to the "send" button has got my money!

Mike
> I got so accustomed to it, I forgot that 
> fact. Just in case someone is interested and got an StackOverflow
> account, more information about the private beta can be found here:
> 
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/server-fault-private-beta-begins/
> 
> sorry,
> - Markus
> 
>