> You could still try to allocate the snapshot on another HDD if possible to > see if HDD seektime may be the issue. Still the performance should not be > degraded that drastically. How does that work? lvcreate -n name -L size VG pv ? > What does the `lsblk -t` say? Could be an alignment issue. 0 through 31 > What's `free` saying about the free memory and cache? (dmeventd on 6.4 is > trying to lock a large chunk of address space in RAM (~100M) Cached mem looks good. Dmeventd. Right. It is. Isn't it spawed everytime an LV is created? root 6813 0.0 1.4 197056 11044 ? S<s May26 2:44 /sbin/dmeventd _______________________________________________ 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/