On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, octave klaba wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a test between single ide <-> raid-1 soft ide <-> raid-1 soft scsi-2
> 
> 1° PIII600/128RAM/1XIDE20.5               
> 2° PIII600/128RAM/2XIDE20.5 raid-1 soft   
> 3° PIII500/256/2940U2W/SCSI-2/RAID-1/IBM18Go7200  
> 
>         -------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
> 1° 2000  9212 96.4 20354 13.9  4411  3.6  3822 35.4 22180  8.0  85.6  0.7
> 2° 2000  1727 22.4  2095  5.5  1381 34.9  3070 98.6  4320 97.8  74.8  7.3
> 3° 2000  7236 91.6 18321 15.5  8003 13.7  8347 96.7 18289 11.6 107.7  1.82

>From the CPU load on the raid-1 soft IDE test, I think seems likely that you
didn't have DMA enabled.  Could that be possible ?

It doesn't make sense to have 97% CPU load when reading with 4 MB/s unless
it's done with port I/O.

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