under what journaling mode you're running ext3 - data=journal or data=ordered ? note that if you have mirroring under full journaling, every write is going to take 4 write i/os - 2 mirrored writes for the journal and 2 mirrored writes for the actual data. but you seem to have this high load when starting a session and may be the reads are not giving the full bandwidth. in raid-1, if the reads are sequential they are directed to only one mirror. that may be the reason why the second drive is almost idle. Vijayan On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote: > I have a software RAID1 underlying the ext3 filesystem on my laptop. > > This was using xfs, which took advantage of the mirroring very well, but > that didn't leave me feeling very comfortable about the reliability of > the system; no fsck was not a nice feeling. > > Now that I have moved to ext3, I very seldom see the mirroring being > taken advantage of, and the system responds a lot more slowly if there > is disk load present. > > This is especially visible when starting a session, which loads three > major applications from disk at once. Under XFS, I got two to five meg a > second of each drive during that. > > Now, I see the first drive pegged at around 1 meg a second, the second > drive almost completely idle, and it takes a fair bit longer to load the > software. > > > Is this expected, or is there something odd about my setup that is > hurting performance? > > If it is expected, is this a design limitation of the filesystem, or a > simple matter of programming to avoid excessive locking (or whatever)? > > Daniel > > -- > If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge. > -- Henry Spencer > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
