They're 10K RPM SCSI drives on a hardware RAID controller...... -Kelly
> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:09 PM > To: Kelly F. Hickel > Cc: Todd Denniston; [email protected] > Subject: Re: problems building feature release on windows > > Kelly F. Hickel writes: > > > > [Kelly F. Hickel] I also expected it to be IO bound, which is why we > > have several fast drives in a RAID 5 array. I have tried moving temp and > > lock to ramdrives (independently and together). All tests as well as > > measurements indicate that it is CPU bound. > > Any chance you don't have DMA mode enabled for the drives? Using PIO > mode instead of DMA will eat up CPU time like crazy. > > -Larry Jones > > It's either spectacular, unbelievable success, or crushing, hopeless > defeat! There is no middle ground! -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
