It's really impolite to send encrypted mail to the list. Anyone to whom the message is encrypted won't be able to read it On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 07:36, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- [snip] > With regards to your message at 02:16 PM 2/11/03, Gregory Leblanc. > Where you stated: > 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. > Greg > > Naturally. There is no such thing as a free lunch. > Look at it this way: > If you have X amount of data to write, and it takes half as long, but > uses 30% more CPU, you are ahead of the game.. The formatting of this message is all wonky, sorry about it being confusing. Anyway, I agree, except that I have no numbers to back up the CPU use differences, or the MB/sec differences. Without them, any claims are pretty silly to try to make. Greg
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