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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, adam radford wrote:

> On 7/26/06, dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org> wrote:
>> 
>> unfortunately when i did the experiment i neglected to perform
>> simultaneous tests on more than one 3ware unit on the same controller.  i
>> got great results from a raid1 or from a raid10 (even a raid5)... but
>> never i only tested one unit at a time.
>> 
>
> Did you try setting /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/cmd_per_lun to 256 / num_units 
> ?
>
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Speaking of this does anyone having any tuning guides for running 10 disk 
raid 5's on this controller? And as far as ext3 goes, what are the best 
optimizations?