Hi Kanoa,
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Kanoa Withington wrote:
> A word of caution here, I do find CPU usage to be very high for 500+gb
> IDE software RAID5 arrays. At least for the 2.2.16 kernel, perhaps it's
> better under 2.4.x. I have a few 800+gb arrays with 2x800mhz PIII
> processors and CPU definetly appears to be the limiting resource. Same
> goes for 400+gb arrays with 2x700mhz processors.
Did you see my earlier post suggesting:
hdparm -m16 -c1 -d1 -a8 /dev/hdX
It works well for all modern UDMA drives. Put it into your rc scripts if
ti works for you.
Regards,
Corin
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