On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Mark Watts wrote: > Basically the system load goes orbital and responsivness goes out the window. > gkrellm only shows ~1MB/sec of disk activity and the processors (Dual Opteron) > are twiddling their thumbs (top shows 100% 'wa' state for both processors), > yet I can hardly do anything with any open applications. I have had good results with IRQ affinity on the 3ware 7500 (echo "0" > /proc/irq/<X>/smp_affinity on my dual pIII machine. Definately makes 3dm behave better anyway. And yes, writing to a hardware raid5 on 3ware isn't fast, so I use scsi drives for anything that needs fast writes, and then use the 3ware for bulk storage (most of it write once read many). -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
