Require hard data on performance issues

Posted in 2000

Carlos Benjamin — Wed, 24 May 2000 11:31:48 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The scenario is running Informix on a raid 5 verses a non raid system system. (Solaris 7 x86 OS) whit@nospam.yahoo.com wrote: >Could ~anyone~ point me to resources where there >have been benchmarks run showing how much of a >performance hit you take utilizing raid 5 compared >to a non raid system?? > >And on a slightly different tack, are there any benchmarks >showing performance gains using raw verses cooked >file systems? -- again, reports rather then "it's quicker" > >TIA >Peter W. NO RAID5 - NO RAID5 - NO RAID5 - NO RAID5 - NO RAID5 - NO RAID5 That's all I know. You'll have to pick up the rest by scanning the archives for RAID5 info from Art Kagle. carlos Currently on hiatus from unemployment. ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com