Dedicated blade server, still not fast enough?

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grandrolf

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What about the drives - looks like you're running the game from the desktop - are that the x8 10k drives or are you running from a internal drive(s) on the blade?
 
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there are 8 10k sas drives on an internal perc 6i raid controller running raid 5.. its the same "drive" the the os is on
 

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Just checking.

Have you tried what IO you have on those?
(as you're running windows you should look in to storage spaces instead of using the raid - especially raid 5 isn't that good on performance)

Or at least use raid 6 or 10 as you have 8 drives, then you'll get better performance.

SQLio is a good tool to check performance on storage.
 
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i'll benchmark them tonight with io meter or something. although in resource monitor i never see them being pegged.
 
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also i thought raid 5 would give me like a 7x read speed boost. i know theres no write speed gain but its something
 

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If I remember correctly it's 5x read speed boost and no write speed gain.

For raid 10 its 6x read and 3x write - and you would want boost in write as well.

The thing that you want to look for is ofc the read/write speed - but also check how the latency comes across - if you got issues there, you'll get skipping of ticks and also lag in-game.

You would probably get better performance of a decent consumer SSD than the sas hdd's you've got now.
 
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any file bigger than 32k seems to clock in around 400MB/s write and 700MB/s read