Hello All! Has anyone else experienced a drastic drop in read performance on software RAID-0 with post 2.4.20 kernels? We have a few Athlon XP's here at our lab with double IDE disks on different channels set up as RAID-0. Some bonnie++ benchmark results with various kernels, on the same machine (Athlon XP 2400+, 2 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, VIA chipset, 2*Maxtor 120 GB 6Y060L0): write read 2.4.20-ac1: 88,000 135,000 K/sec 2.4.21-pre7: 93,000 75,000 2.4.22-ac4: 94,000 82,000 So the write speed has gone up a bit, but the read speed performance has plunged. Any ideas on what happened between 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 and what to do about it? I'm eagerly awaiting suggestions, good read speed is quite critical for many of our calculations :-) I will of course provide more details if necessary. Have a nice day, Mikael J. http://www.helsinki.fi/~mpjohans/ - 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