I have a 4 disk raid6. The disks are individually capable of (at least) 75MB/s on average. The raid6 looks like this: md0 : active raid6 sda4[0] sdc4[5] sdd4[4] sdb4[6] 613409536 blocks super 1.1 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] The raid serves basically as an lvm physical volume. While rsyncing a file from an ext3 filesystem to a jfs filesystem, I am observing speeds in the 10-15MB/s range. That seems really really slow. Using vmstat, I see similar numbers (I'm averaging a bit, I'll see lows of 6MB/s and highs of 18-20MB/s, but these are infrequent.) The system is, for the most part, otherwise unloaded. I looked at stripe_cache_size and increased it to 384 - no difference. blockdev --getra reports 256 for all involved raid components. I'm using the deadline I/O scheduler. Am I crazy? Is 12.5MB/s (average) what I should expect, here? What might I look at here? -- Jon -- 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