On Sat Feb 01 2003 at 10:04:25 +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I have no experience of the RAID controllers, but I'm not particularly
> happy with the NetBSD RAIDframe implementation.  I bought fast disks,
> configured RAID - and found out that RAID drops the performance to a
> fraction of that of the disks.
> 
> I don't know why, because when RAID is 100% busy, CPU load is almost
> zero and the disk load 25% or so.  It's like if RAIDframe had some
> usleep() calls in the code to make things go slower..

What's your stripe unit size? I also was suffering from inexplainable
slowness until I dropped the stripe unit size to 16 sectors. Before that
my RAID5 gave something like 5MB/s write speeds, now it's giving more
than 25MB/s.

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