Re: SAN vs Internal Disks

[Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>]

On Friday 07 September 2007 10:56, "Bryan Murphy" 
<bryan(dot)murphy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Our database server connects to the san via iSCSI over Gig/E using
> jumbo frames.  File system is XFS (noatime).
>
> Throughput, however, kinda sucks.  I just can't get the kind of
> throughput to it I was hoping to get.  

A single Gig/E couldn't even theoretically do better than 125MB/sec, so 
yeah I would expect throughput sucks pretty bad.

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