Just to followup to myself here's the tiobench on my 2TB 12x180GB RAID5 array. This is running on two channels of an Adaptec 39160 tiobench.pl --size=4000 Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/secd . -T File Block Num Seq Read Rand Read Seq Write Rand Write Dir Size Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) ------- ------ ------- --- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- . 4000 4096 1 113.3 72.5% 1.065 2.11% 55.94 94.0% 2.991 2.68% . 4000 4096 2 99.09 93.0% 1.375 2.72% 54.84 115.% 3.007 3.46% . 4000 4096 4 97.11 103.% 1.702 3.37% 50.96 111.% 2.993 3.89% . 4000 4096 8 95.83 108.% 2.050 3.83% 49.37 107.% 3.032 4.17% On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Mike Black wrote: > I finally got my 2TB array synced. Success was achieved by throttling it to > 10MB/sec: > > echo 10000 >/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max > > When left at 100MB/sec the raid5d daemon was hitting 100% CPU (hogging one > CPU on a dual 1Ghz) -- don't know if this may be related or not. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html