On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/27/2010 12:19 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>> On 09/27/2010 08:15 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
>>> So I'm in the process of building and testing a raid setup and it
>>> appeared to take along time to build I came across some settings for
>>> setting the min amount of time and that helped but it appears that one
>>> of the disks is struggling (100 utilization) vs the other one...I was
>>> wondering if anyone else has seen this and if so, is their a solution
>>> for it...my 2 disks are 1 Samsung F3 1tb /dev/sdb and 1 Seagate
>>> 7200.12 1Tb /dev/sdc...smartctl looks good on both....
>>>
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> What is the output from 'cat /proc/mdstat'?
>
> Also, head position/motion is the usual limiting factor with disk
> performance. Do you have other disk activity that will keep yanking the
> head on the active drive away from the track currently needed for the
> rebuild?
Also, also, if any of the drives are operating in PIO mode (Legacy Mode) then rebuild times will be horrific, as well as performance afterward. Make sure all drives are in SATA/AHCI mode.
-Ross
PS look at svc_tm in iostat and make sure all drives are performing correctly. Maybe a bad cable or flakey port expander...
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