[mythtv-users] Software RAID5 no improvement to transfer speed...

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Steve Adeff wrote:

> well I got my software RAID5 up and running. 3 drives, no spares.
> but I still get playback stuttering while recording 2 HD channels  
> and playing
> 1 prerecorded HD show. The cpu usage hasn't gone higher than 96% so  
> I don't
> think its a cpu usage problem.
> I do have all three drives connected to the same onboard SATA150  
> controller
> though I don't know if this could be a problem?
>
It sure might be, whatever tool you are using to measure CPU load  
(top?) is averaging over some period of time, if the average is 96%  
then you are almost certainly hitting peaks of 100%+.