On 11 Feb 2003, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > While the performance of RAID 5 using software RAID is generally far > superior to that provided by hardware RAID, host CPU usage can be > -quite- high in high-load situations. The benchmarks recently posted > had cpu usage numbers at over 90% on most sequeential writes and reads. But what is the CPU usage per MB/sec? If software RAID5 was just as efficient as hardware RAID5, except twice as fast, you would expect the CPU usage to be double. - 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