On Monday June 22, randall@xxxxxx wrote: > NeilBrown wrote: > >> > >> ~$ grep . /sys/block/md2/md/* > > ... > >> /sys/block/md2/md/sync_speed:0 > >> /sys/block/md2/md/sync_speed_max:0 (system) > >> /sys/block/md2/md/sync_speed_min:0 (system) > > > > This looks like the culprit. The sync_speed has been limited to > > 0. The "(system)" means that it is using the value from > > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max > > > > It seem that that value has been set to 0 somehow. > > The default value is 200000. > > > > Could something be setting that? Can you set it back? > > .../speed_limit_min should be 1000 by default. > > > > NeilBrown > > I'll set it back next time it happens. Any guess what might set that > value to 0 and why? mdadm is the only thing I know of that knows about > raid. It starts up late in the init process with this command: No, I don't know of anything that would changed these values. mdadm certainly does not. My guess would be some errant script, maybe part of a cron job. NeilBrown -- 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