On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Jon Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > > > > Neil has a patch for the bad speed. > > > > > > > > What does the patch do? I repeat: what does the patch do (or is this no longer applicable)? > > > > sync_speed_max defaults to 200000 on this box already. Altering sync_speed_min... > > > > I tried a binary search of values between the default (1000) > > > > and 60000 which resulted in some pretty weird behavior: > > > > > > > > at values below 26000 the rate (also confirmed via dstat output) stayed > > > > low. 2-3MB/s. At 26000 and up, the value jumped more or less instantly > > > > to 70-74MB/s. What makes 26000 special? If I set the value to 20000 why > > > > do I still get 2-3MB/s actual? > Sounds quite strange, what chunk size are you using for your RAID? The default: 64 md0 : active raid5 sdc4[2] sda4[0] sdb4[1] 613409664 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] -- Jon Nelson <jnelson-linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxx> - 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