On 26/08/16 00:39, Adam Goryachev wrote: > You should find out if you are swapping with vmstat: > vmstat 5 > Watch the Swap (SI and SO) columns, if they are non-zero, then you are > indeed swapping. > > You might find that if there is insufficient memory, then the kernel > will automatically reduce/limit the value for the stripe_cache_size (I'm > only guessing, but my memory tells me that the kernel locks this memory > and it can't be swapped/etc). Are you using a gui :-) ? Download and build the latest version of xosview (assuming it builds, when I last tried, "bleeding edge" was bleeding ... :-( git://github.com/mromberg/xosview That'll give you a nice little overview of both raid and swap. The current version of xosview is fine for swap, but the raid monitor is broken. Cheers, Wol -- 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