RE: 3ware 7500-12, bad write speed

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Adam Radford wrote:

Can you run the following commands, then re-run your 3ware benchmark and see
if the results change?

echo "60" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
echo "512" > /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead
echo "256" > /proc/sys/vm/min-readahead

Do any of this settings (or any other settings in /proc/sys/vm) help sw
raid ?

also what are the best parameters for mke2fs (both sw and hw raid)
(i now run mke2fs -j -m 0 /dev/sdb1 (or /dev/md0)