I have built yesterday a 2.6.11 kernel with Xen. I wanted to move some old data to my LVM and the speed according to midnight commander was about 350kb/s ! about 2gig where copied in 4 hours! I then rebooted with the original Debian Kernel 2.4.27-2-386 and the speed incresead to about 5mb/s that doesn't make me very happy either but was way better then 350kb! I have been searching the net all night and didn't come up with a solution. I have no clue what is wrong here. What did I do wrong and how can I increase the performance? The lvm is made out of 2x Seagate 300GB IDE HD not striped. esplendidos:~# lvm lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/share/sharevg VG Name share LV UUID KdvcJ9-ZLMP-AJYA-soGK-qHfy-UtrX-PpV9Kv LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 558.91 GB Current LE 143082 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0 esplendidos:~# lvm dumpconfig devices { dir="/dev" scan="/dev" filter="r|/dev/cdrom|" cache="/etc/lvm/.cache" write_cache_state=1 sysfs_scan=1 md_component_detection=0 } activation { missing_stripe_filler="/dev/ioerror" mirror_region_size=512 reserved_stack=256 reserved_memory=8192 process_priority=-18 } global { umask=63 test=0 activation=1 proc="/proc" locking_type=1 locking_dir="/var/lock/lvm" } shell { history_size=100 } backup { backup=1 backup_dir="/etc/lvm/backup" archive=1 archive_dir="/etc/lvm/archive" retain_min=10 retain_days=30 } log { verbose=0 syslog=1 overwrite=0 level=0 indent=1 command_names=0 prefix=" " } any tip for performance tuning? -- Cristian Livadaru http://vwclub.ro/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/