On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Adam Radford wrote: > Can you run the following commands, then re-run your 3ware benchmark and see > if the results change? > > echo "60" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush > echo "512" > /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead > echo "256" > /proc/sys/vm/min-readahead Do any of this settings (or any other settings in /proc/sys/vm) help sw raid ? also what are the best parameters for mke2fs (both sw and hw raid) (i now run mke2fs -j -m 0 /dev/sdb1 (or /dev/md0) - 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