Re: Does XFS on hardware RAID5 have perfomance issues?

["Adam McKenna" <adam-dated-1015968510.b72b9d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:34:02PM -0600, Ray Muno wrote:
> I did a quick test of a kernel compile.

How is a kernel compile a test of disk performance?  Kernel compiles are
generally CPU-bound, not I/O-bound.

Why don't you test it with a disk benchmarking tool?

As far as your kernel compiles, on a 4-CPU system, make -j4 will most likely
speed things up considerably.

--Adam