On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 raid@ddx.a2000.nu wrote: > Ok did a benchmark between software raid en hw raid > controller 3ware 7850 (7500-8 now?) with 5 * WDC 120GB 7200RPM (2mb cache) > On xeon dual 2GHZ (controller in 64bits pci) Guess that is pretty much the same results I get, but it also shows that software raid5 also isn't very fast when it comes to writing, and cpu usage actually does rise a lot (your tests seem to indicate that there is a lot of cpu activity going on?). -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se - 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