Second HBA to east io on E250?

From: Ste Kearney (stek1961_at_macSPAM.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:15:03 +0100

We have one of these venerable old machines hosting an Oracle application
and a message queue on it's internal disks.

It's suffering from delayed writes and the Oracle boys want to move the
message queue off the disks onto a bog simple flexpack with a 36gb disk on
the end of Sun PCI SCSI Controller (X6540A), leaving Oracle to churn away on
the internal disks....

My thought is to move the MQ onto another machine entirely, thinking even a
specced up E250 (I don't know how specced up this one is yet) might struggle
with anything made by Oracle plus a message queue.

Just looking for opinions based on this scant information! I'm still waiting
for copies of the iostat and vmstat logs etc.....

Of course, this system is REALLY important but obviously not enough to
warrant an newer box!

Steve

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