Re: md faster than h/w?

[Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>]

Mark Hahn wrote:
> I've written a fairly
> simple bandwidth-reporting tool:
> 	http://www.sharcnet.ca/~hahn/iorate.c
> 
> it prints incremental bandwidth, which I find helpful because it shows
> recording zones, like this slightly odd Samsung:
> 	http://www.sharcnet.ca/~hahn/sp0812c.png
> 

Using iorate.c, I guess somewhat different numbers for the 2.6.15 kernel than
for the 2.6.8 kernel - the 2.6.15 kernel starts off at 105MB/s and head down
to 94MB/s, while 2.6.8 starts at 140MB/s and heads town to 128MB/s.

That seems like a significant difference to me?

What to do?

Max.