Re: limits on raid

david@lang.hm wrote:

I plan to test the different configurations.

however, if I was saturating the bus with the reconstruct how can I fire 
off a dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test and get ~45M/sec whild only slowing 
the reconstruct to ~4M/sec?

I'm putting 10x as much data through the bus at that point, it would 
seem to proove that it's not the bus that's saturated.

I am unconvinced.  If you take ~1MB/s for each active drive, add in SCSI 
overhead, 45M/sec seems reasonable.  Have you look at a running iostat 
while all this is going on?  Try it out- add up the kb/s from each drive 
and see how close you are to your maximum theoretical IO.

Also, how's your CPU utilization?

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