According to sar and Orca, over the past 4 months the box is about 95% idle most of the time so I don't think CPU load will be an issue. The box is a quad Xeon 1.4GHz with 8GB RAM. -----Original Message----- From: C. R. Oldham [mailto:cro@ncacasi.org] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:35 AM To: Rechenberg, Andrew; Mike Dresser Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Questions about VERY large software raid config > I have test hardware with 20 drives and it appears to behave > nicely and I'm getting much better throughput from software > RAID than the Dell PERC hardware Have you tracked your CPU load? That is one thing that has kept me from going back to software RAID. -- C. R. Oldham Director of Technology NCA CASI - 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
