> Is this good software raid performance for a 

Yes. At least similar to that what I got on a SCSI 2 * 9GB system.

>               -------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
>           400  7644 98.3 15585 23.1  7000 21.1  7861 92.5 17368 12.4 145.4 3.2

> I can understand the write performance but I would think the read
> performance would be better given that it should be reading from both 
> halves of the mirror?

It was NOT better here, too. I also wondered about that because the docs say
sth different.

> Basically looking for the MAXimum performance out of this thing.

RAID-0 is better ;-) But far less fail safe (not at all failsafe ;-).

Thomas.
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