On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 2.1.131-ac11 + raid0145-19981214-2.1.131-ac9 (no autostart)
> 
> 4-way P6-200, 1G ram, 10 9.1G Seagate drives (9 in raid-5 with 1 spare) 
> across two aic-7880 controllers (on the MB)
> 
>      -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>      -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
>   MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> 2000  7141 98.0 21789 96.3 10677 79.8  9724 92.6 23544 79.5 574.4 14.4
> 
> Looks great!

looks like it's pretty much CPU-bound. Time to improve the RAID5-overhead
...

does decreasing/increasing chunksize change the results? Even chunksize 4k
makes sense under certain circumstances. (in case the array is not yet
used, changing chunksize destroys data content otherwise) 

-- mingo

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