RE: Questions about VERY large software raid config

According to sar and Orca, over the past 4 months the box is about 95%
idle most of the time so I don't think CPU load will be an issue.  The
box is a quad Xeon 1.4GHz with 8GB RAM.

-----Original Message-----
From: C. R. Oldham [mailto:cro@ncacasi.org] 
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:35 AM
To: Rechenberg, Andrew; Mike Dresser
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Questions about VERY large software raid config

I have test hardware with 20 drives and it appears to behave
nicely and I'm getting much better throughput from software
RAID than the Dell PERC hardware

Have you tracked your CPU load?  That is one thing that has kept me from
going back to software RAID.


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C. R. Oldham
Director of Technology
NCA CASI