From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux RAID & XFS Question - Multiple levels of concurrency =
 faster I/O on md/RAID 5?
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:55:27 +0000
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On 01/11/2008 08:29, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> Why is running 3 jobs con-currently that take care of two parts each 
> more than
> twice as fast than running one job for six parts?

Because you have multiple CPUs?

Cheers,

John.