Re: Improving RAID5 performance (what disks/configuration?)

[Andy Poling]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> System details:
> 
> AMD K6-233
[...]
> 2 x fast/wide/ultra 9.1gig 7200rpm disks (/export) ---> /dev/md0
[...]
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
>           100 11281 96.0 23991 93.2  9835 80.9 10934 86.4 25079 80.6 393.7  9.3

Don't these v. high CPU percentages imply that you're pretty much at the
limit of what your CPU/memory can do?...

-Andy

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