On Saturday 02 October 2004 05:33 am, Mohammad N. Tina wrote:

Hi, I have a suse8.2 running on dell power 1600scm, Dual processors 3.2GHz, 1GB RAM,with PERC4 controller(RAID 5 configuration). I am noticing slow write speed, like copying file from location to another or untar compressed files,I know that writing speed in RAID 5 is slower than normal configuration. 1-how can i know that my RAID 5 configuration are correct? can i increase the writing speed 2- how can i make check that the server is using the dual processors.

Thanks

Your raid does not use dual processors, it has its own on board controller that does all the work. If your raid is degraded, (one lost drive) you would notice slow writes (slow everything actually, but writes moreso. You need to use the boot time built in PERC4 utilities to verify that. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen