Holger Kiehl wrote: > Why do I only get 247 MB/s for writting and 227 MB/s for reading (from the > bonnie++ results) for a Raid0 over 8 disks? I was expecting to get nearly > three times those numbers if you take the numbers from the individual > disks. > > What limit am I hitting here? You may be hitting a 2.6 kernel bug, which has something to do with readahead, ask Jens Axboe about it! (see "[git patches] IDE update" thread) Sadly, 2.6.13 did not fix it either. Did you try 2.4.31? -- Al - 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