My machine was idle during the rebuild. When I say idle, I mean no one logged in, no user processes running (except me sshed into the box), no database, no I/O other than the rebuild. While the rebuild was going on my system was debilitated, totally slow to respond to ssh commands Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Clements" <paul.clements@steeleye.com> To: <me@heyjay.com> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Sync rates? > me@heyjay.com wrote: > > > platinum:~# cat /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min > > 1000 > > platinum:~# cat /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max > > 200000 > > Are these acceptable? > > Well, those values are in KB/s. And, your resync rate is about: > > 120000000 / ( 24 * 60 * 60 ) = 1388 KB/s > > if my calculations are correct. I'd try bumping the min value up to say > 10000 and see if that speeds things up. Is there much I/O activity on > the system? That will slow down a resync quite a bit, too. > > -- > Paul > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
