From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: me@heyjay.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:58:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406BAF7F.2030307@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006401c417a1$36a45790$6405a8c0@a30>
me@heyjay.com wrote:
> I'd like to thank everyone who responded, and I didn't mean to start a
> software vs hardware war. But now that I did I'm sort of happy, because
> it's made me question if my direction is proper for my goals.
Not your fault, it's inevitable ;-)
> - I'm using a (fairly) old machine, I have to figure processor speed has to
> be an issue with software raid
> - When the box is being stressed most of the work is computational, the
> process I run puts the CPU% at 98% (according to top).
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...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 15:47 Which raid card to buy for Sarge me
2004-03-31 16:15 ` Luca Berra
2004-03-31 16:43 ` me
2004-03-31 16:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-31 18:03 ` Ralph Paßgang
2004-03-31 19:50 ` Mark Hahn
2004-03-31 20:19 ` Richard Scobie
2004-04-01 9:07 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-04-04 4:47 ` Richard Scobie
2004-04-09 11:16 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-04-09 13:07 ` Which raid card to buy for SargeD Yu Chen
2004-04-09 21:52 ` KELEMEN Peter
2004-03-31 20:42 ` Which raid card to buy for Sarge Ralph Paßgang
2004-03-31 20:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 21:39 ` Guy
2004-04-01 4:49 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 4:51 ` seth vidal
2004-04-01 5:01 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 5:39 ` Guy
2004-04-01 5:51 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 5:29 ` Guy
2004-04-01 5:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 5:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 5:56 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 7:49 ` Sandro Dentella
2004-04-01 8:03 ` Brad Campbell
2004-04-01 8:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 14:25 ` Nick Maynard
2004-04-16 15:09 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-16 16:29 ` Nick Maynard
2004-04-16 17:44 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-16 22:34 ` jlewis
2004-04-01 4:24 ` me
2004-04-01 4:57 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-04-01 5:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01 6:39 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-04-01 5:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-04-01 12:52 ` me
2004-04-01 19:31 ` Terrence Martin
2004-04-02 4:46 ` me
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