Hi Steve, Cool!
On my modern 3.6GHZ server, cpu usage on raid is negligible - something less than 1% but on much slower machines in the past I have seen it up around 3% so the point I was trying to make was that it should never cause the CPU to head up into the 90's under even the most extreme situation unless of course there is some major a bug. My IO waits are a different matter. If software RAID (RAID1) is in use and server is busy, io waits (wa) never really exceed 10% but with my hardware RAID5 array frequently I see it getting up to 40% io waits if it is really busy. Its quite ironic as that is why I paid loads of money for it - my bet is there is a bug in the controller firmware but the manufacturer doesn't seem to be doing much about it at least the server performs well so I don't bother myself too much over it. If your load averages are 0.40 then to me that is fine but if it is 4.00 then that is not so good as most Unix pros would consider that to be an overloaded CPU. Of course its all speculation and people interpret load averages differently. Regards, Johnathon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Adeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <mythtv-users@mythtv.org> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transferspeed... Just to let you guys know, it was an SQL issue, I sent a new email, but changed the subject announcing it... I had my other machine (over 100bT) running the SQL db, once I moved it back to the local machine it plays back fine. thanks for the info though, some good info. Johnathon: I don't even notice 3% use by the RAID, I've seen %wa as high as 6%. I get load averges around 4 while watching HD and recording 2 shows. Ramses: great command! I need to store that to my repertoire. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users