On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > > Hi. > > We have a busy mailserver with the mail-spool on MD (raid1, consisting > of sda and sdb, ext3 w/data=journal noatime nodiratime, 2.6.6, > Debian Woody). The read-balancing does not seem to work properly. > I had a quick look on one of my systemes, it does work there: avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 1.45 0.00 8.65 14.25 75.65 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 1010.18 41.92 14.97 335.33 8207.58 167.66 4103.79 150.18 1.93 33.94 3.10 17.62 sdd 0.00 1006.39 42.91 18.96 343.31 8207.58 171.66 4103.79 138.19 2.46 39.73 2.92 18.04 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 0.90 0.00 4.45 23.86 70.79 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 554.09 94.21 11.58 753.69 4526.95 376.85 2263.47 49.92 1.29 12.18 1.80 19.02 sdd 0.00 547.50 96.01 18.16 768.06 4526.95 384.03 2263.47 46.38 2.11 18.46 1.79 20.48 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 0.85 0.00 3.45 4.25 91.45 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 34.80 15.40 2.60 123.20 299.20 61.60 149.60 23.47 0.04 2.06 1.91 3.44 sdd 0.00 34.60 16.20 2.80 129.60 299.20 64.80 149.60 22.57 0.05 2.56 1.98 3.76 This is with 2.6.10-rc2-bk12. Holger - 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