Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

[Martin Knoblauch]

--- Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx> 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
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> 
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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