From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:58:23 -0500
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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