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SubjectRe: complain about dpt_2o driver and CPU time
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> feel that the card is very slow, the test with Bonnie shows 1810KB/sec 
> with CPU load less than 2%. This shows the CPU time is idle, but the
> load average go up to around 13-14 . This means the dpt_i2o driver is

The load average includes I/O waiting. So that may well mean you have 14
different processes waiting for the card.

> even faster than this Ultra-160 SCSI i960 RAID with 32MB cache. If this
> is the case, I will just throw it away and use my onboard Ultra-160
> connector with software RAID which runs faster(at least). This is almost
> unusable for even small workgroup server.

The numbers seem extremely poor. There are plenty of abysmally slow
RAID controllers out there but I'd expect bettere than 1810K/second even
on things like old Megaraid cards.

Alan
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