Thanks for the reply.
Sadly, this specific server is 150 miles away in colo, and only has a
single on-board controller (it's a Dell R310).
I'd be surprised if it was controller/contention related, but I
certainly won't rule it out.
Cal
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:34 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:07:54 +0100 "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]"
> <cal.leeming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried to rebuild/sync two RAID1 arrays at the same time, with strange results.
>>
>> When a new drive was added into md0, it started to sync fine at
>> 123,000kb/sec. Whilst that was running, I also added a new drive into
>> md1, and this causes both arrays sync speed to slow down to
>> 20,000kb/sec. I checked the /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_{min|max}
>> and these were both set fine.
>>
>> I removed the drive from md1, and the md0 sync went back to the normal speed.
>>
>> RAID Setup:
>> md0 - 2 drives (2TB Western Digital)
>> md1 - 2 drives (500GB M3 SDD)
>>
>> So my question is, does anyone know why the sync speed (on all arrays)
>> slowed down to almost 6-7 times the norm, when two (or more?) sync
>> operations are taking place?
>>
>
> Dodgy controller? I assume both arrays are on the same controller.
>
> Can you plug in a separate controller even if only temporarily and see what
> happens?
>
> I can see how any interaction with md would have this effect.
>
> NeilBrown
>
>
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