On 02/18/2011 08:29 AM, Simon Mcnair wrote: > top - 13:28:45 up 1 day, 39 min, 12 users, load average: 2.65, 2.49, 2.37 > Tasks: 340 total, 7 running, 333 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu0 : 47.9%us, 15.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 13.7%id, 21.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu1 : 54.8%us, 8.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 33.3%id, 3.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu2 : 46.5%us, 13.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 37.9%id, 1.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu3 : 49.5%us, 9.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 37.6%id, 3.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu4 : 48.7%us, 8.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 17.3%id, 25.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st > Cpu5 : 50.3%us, 7.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 41.8%id, 0.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu6 : 53.5%us, 6.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 38.4%id, 1.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu7 : 52.0%us, 6.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 41.2%id, 0.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 12299244k total, 12227064k used, 72180k free, 10754600k buffers > Swap: 11534332k total, 0k used, 11534332k free, 175916k cached Hmmm. Not what I expected at all. I'd be very interested in some performance tests of the Supermicro ports vs. motherboard ports on that system. Phil -- 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