[...] > The HOWTO's above should guid you through the full process. I > was running SuSE 11.1 when I did the install. That SW RAID is being > used for backups. Write Speed ~150MB/s max, max read, max read is > about 357MB/s (which is about 95% efficiency, given the max read speed > of 3 data spindles (I implemented a RAID5 with 4 disks)). Given that > the raid is spun-down most of the time, that's more than fast enough > for my setup. My limiting factor is 'gzip' which, thinking about it > as I write this -- I should just eliminate (it slows down the > throughput to ~10MB/s which seems like alot given how fast gzip is, > but, that's what the average was over a 6-hour backup of one of my > large partitions).
Speaking of "gzip" as the limiting factor - I've had success in replacing gzip by pigz ( http://www.zlib.net/pigz/ ) which makes use of multiple CPUs. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
