about the RAID cards you are using. Who makes them? Are they
supported under Gentoo Linux? I have just brought a ITE RAID card and cannot
get the driver to compile - so I have 2 x 120GB HDs sat idle at the moment
:(
TIA
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:27, Patrick Nehls wrote:
> You won't get much/a
You won't get much/any performance increase striping the RAIDs in Linux. The
amount of data that the RAID5 will need, especially with 2, 8 drive arrays
will absolutely swamp your PCI bus already. If you are doing gigabit
transfers on top of this your PCI bus will be hit even harder.
With 8MB files
If you are using the default wondershaper script then I believe it
prioritizes all traffic into 2 main queues. One is the high priority queue
and the other is the "bulk" or lower priority queue. The simple solution is
to dump all traffic coming from the single high priority host into the high
prior
I use one of the Via mini-itx boards with embedded C3/800Mhz CPU. It runs
Gentoo 1.4/current portage tree just fine but as stated, only with the i586
optimizations. I believe the Gentoo user forums had some threads in the past
on this. Apparently the C3 does not implement 1 "optional" instruction i
