I don't know about RAID 1 (mirroring).. but I have been using striping (RAID 0) on lesser systems without any apparent impact on latency or CPU load. On Mon May 25 19:40 , Brent Busby sent: >I wondered what the prevalent opinion was about setting up a software >raid mirror of two sata drives under Linux LVM. This is on a 3.2GHz >quad core AMD system that almost certainly has plenty of free CPU. Will >this provide extra disk i/o that could be usefully applied to getting >more simultaneous tracks, or will using a software mirror interfere with >the RT kernel or cause latency issues/instability somewhere? > >-- >+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys >+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will >+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of >+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, >+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky >_______________________________________________ >Linux-audio-user mailing list >Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
