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Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:52:20 -0600
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge


>
> 98% cpu doing just raid 1?  That sounds highly strange, even on an older
> CPU.
>
> Typically RAID1 doesn't stress the cpu as much as PCI bus bandwidth and
> the drives...
>

Sorry, I was unclear.  Currently (without raid) my process maxes out my cpu.
If I move to raid won't I have performance problems?  Maybe all the work
happens at the PCI bus

Jay