Hello, at the moment I'm trying to find a bottleneck on my lamp-server with opensuse 11.4 (Kernel 2.6.37.6) Sometimes the system has a very poor performance because of a high io-wait. If I watch the systems disk-access with "atop -dD" I can see that sda is the most of the time at a load of 10%, sdb sometimes is at 100% or higher at the same time. In my opinion in a Raid1-System both disk should have nearly the same load. Or may I wrong whis this? Both harddisks where changed 3 Weeks ago, /proc/mdstat shows that the rebuild was successfull and the array is functional. Today I've changed th SATA-Cable and the Port on the Maindboard of sdb, but the behaviour is still the same. Both disks passed the extended smart-self-test. Any ideas about that? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4 - 6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds@xxxxxxxx Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- 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