On 1/12/2011 1:17 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I have a 750Gb 3-member software raid1 where 2 partitions are always
> present and the
>> third is regularly rotated and re-synced (SATA disks in hot-swap bays).
> The timing of
>> the resync seems to be extremely variable recently, taking anywhere from
> 3 to 10 hours
>> even if the partition is unmounted and the drives aren't doing anything
> else and
>> regardless of what I echo into /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min or
> _max. Is there
>> some way to tell if the drives are going bad or speed it up consistently
> if they aren't?
>
> Only thing I can think is if there's a lot of activity on the disks, with
> many, many gigs of files added or deleted.
No, I'd expect the issue with any activity that would keep pulling the
heads away from the current track being sync'd - but when it is slow it
doesn't speed up even if I unmount the device.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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