There is a lot of activity after you first create a mirror but the CPU load should not be that high. Maybe you don't have DMA turned on? Check using "hdparm". -Kanoa On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Huntress Gary B NPRI wrote: > Hi, > > I'm creating my first software RAID array. I'm on a 900 MHz system with 786MB of ram, running Fedora RC1. I'm creating a RAID 1 array consisting only of two drives, split on two IDE channels. > > I used mdadm --create and everything is running fine so far, but my system load is well over 10. Is this normal? I suspect that this is just overhead while creating the array the first time. Can I assume that when the array is actually put into use that the system loads will not be this high? (I hope not!) > > Thanks, > > Gary H. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
