Dell Poweredge 2950 with PERC 5/i RAID

[Giulio Orsero]

On 10/9/06, Claudio Nasuti <claudio.nasuti at acsys.it> wrote:
> The installation went smooth like a breeze but when I made a small IO test I have been shocked
> IO seems very poor as everyone can figure by numbers
> [root at adm-sdf1 ~]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=./DummyFile bs=65536 count=65536
> 65536+0 records in
> 65536+0 records out
>
> real    1m49.236s

If I'm not mistaken the test shows you get about 37MB/s.
If this is very poor, what numbers did you expect?

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