Gigabit! Lucky :) I want a Gigabit switch for Christmas! And a few PCI cards too! Of course, with Gigabit, I would want/need a better Linux system too! With PCI-express and ... I better wake up and go to bed! :) Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TJ Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:33 AM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Guy Subject: Re: Looking for the cause of poor I/O performance > My linux system is a P3-500 with 2 CPUs and 512 Meg RAM. My system is much > faster than my network. I don't know how your K6-500 compares to my > P3-500. But RAM may be your issue. That amount of ram seems very low. Are > you swapping? What is your CPU load during the tests? If you are at 100%, > then you are CPU bound. You've got a dual CPU setup, mine is only single. I'll bet you have a server chipset too. Still, I have serious doubts that the CPU is at fault. My guess would be that this could be a VIA chipset problem. The load averages while running these tests are allways well below 1. I mistyped the amount of memory. I have approx 409 MB. I am not swapping. > Your disk performance is faster than a 100BaseT network. So, your > performance may not be an issue. The network is gigabit, with a crossover to the client machine. I used ttcp to verify that the link is capable of over 146 MB/sec. TJ - 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 - 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
