> for comparison, a fairly crappy SiS 735-based k7 system with > 64b-wide PC2100 can deliver maybe 1.2 GB/s dram bandwidth. > hdparm -T is about 500 MB/s, and would probably have trouble > breaking 200 MB/s with raid0 even if it had enough buses. > > an older server of mine is e7500-based, dual xeon/2.4's, with > 2xPC1600 ram. it sustains about 1.6 GB/s on Stream, and about > 500 MB/s hdparm -T, and can sustain 250 MB/s through it's 6-disk > raid without any problem. hmmm.. In these cases, how does the throughput exceed the PCI bandwidth? Do these boards have multiple busses? PCI-X? TJ Harrell - 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
