Hello! Keep testing the new box and while having not the best sync speed, it's not the worst thing I found. Doing FIO testing, for RAID10 over 20 10k RPM drives, I have very bad performance, like _45_ iops only. Drives: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: TOSHIBA Product: AL14SEB18EQ Revision: 0101 User Capacity: 1,800,360,124,416 bytes [1.80 TB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Physical block size: 4096 bytes Lowest aligned LBA: 0 Rotation Rate: 10500 rpm Form Factor: 2.5 inches Logical Unit id: 0x500003975840f759 Serial number: X6K0A0D5FZRC Device type: disk Transport protocol: SAS Local Time is: Mon Jun 5 09:51:56 2017 UTC SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Temperature Warning: Enabled Output from fio with internal write-intent bitmap: Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)] [28.3% done] [0KB/183KB/0KB /s] [0/45/0 iops] [eta 07m:11s] array definition: [root@spare-a17484327407661 rovchinnikov]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid10 sdx[19] sdw[18] sdv[17] sdu[16] sdt[15] sds[14] sdr[13] sdq[12] sdp[11] sdo[10] sdn[9] sdm[8] sdl[7] sdk[6] sdj[5] sdi[4] sdh[3] sdg[2] sdf[1] sde[0] 17580330880 blocks super 1.2 64K chunks 2 near-copies [20/20] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] bitmap: 0/66 pages [0KB], 131072KB chunk Setting journal to be 1) on SSD (separate drives), shows Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)] [5.0% done] [0KB/18783KB/0KB /s] [0/4695/0 iops] [eta 09m:31s] 2) to 'none' (disabling) shows Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)] [14.0% done] [0KB/18504KB/0KB /s] [0/4626/0 iops] [eta 08m:36s] All bitmap manipulations was on running array, Sample output from iostat with internal bitmap (array of interest is md1): Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util sdz 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdy 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdc 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdd 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sde 0.00 0.00 0.00 47.00 0.00 542.00 23.06 0.67 14.34 0.00 14.34 14.28 67.10 sdh 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 0.00 734.00 29.36 0.68 13.66 0.00 13.66 13.60 68.00 sdi 0.00 0.00 0.00 46.00 0.00 478.00 20.78 0.67 14.63 0.00 14.63 14.54 66.90 sdf 0.00 0.00 0.00 47.00 0.00 542.00 23.06 0.67 14.28 0.00 14.28 14.21 66.80 sdl 0.00 0.00 0.00 45.00 0.00 414.00 18.40 0.66 14.78 0.00 14.78 14.69 66.10 sdn 0.00 0.00 0.00 44.00 0.00 350.00 15.91 0.66 14.95 0.00 14.95 14.95 65.80 sdj 0.00 0.00 0.00 46.00 0.00 478.00 20.78 0.65 14.22 0.00 14.22 14.13 65.00 sdk 0.00 0.00 0.00 46.00 0.00 418.00 18.17 0.65 14.35 0.00 14.35 13.98 64.30 sdm 0.00 0.00 0.00 44.00 0.00 350.00 15.91 0.62 14.18 0.00 14.18 14.14 62.20 sdp 0.00 0.00 0.00 43.00 0.00 286.00 13.30 0.62 14.56 0.00 14.56 14.51 62.40 sdg 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 0.00 734.00 29.36 0.68 13.58 0.00 13.58 13.52 67.60 sdv 0.00 0.00 0.00 43.00 0.00 346.00 16.09 0.67 15.19 0.00 15.19 15.49 66.60 sdr 0.00 0.00 0.00 44.00 0.00 410.00 18.64 0.66 14.59 0.00 14.59 14.86 65.40 sds 0.00 0.00 0.00 43.00 0.00 286.00 13.30 0.65 15.07 0.00 15.07 15.02 64.60 sdt 0.00 0.00 0.00 42.00 0.00 282.00 13.43 0.65 15.17 0.00 15.17 15.48 65.00 sdo 0.00 0.00 0.00 43.00 0.00 286.00 13.30 0.64 14.93 0.00 14.93 14.88 64.00 sdq 0.00 0.00 0.00 45.00 0.00 414.00 18.40 0.66 14.67 0.00 14.67 14.62 65.80 sdw 0.00 0.00 0.00 43.00 0.00 346.00 16.09 0.66 14.93 0.00 14.93 15.21 65.40 sdu 0.00 0.00 0.00 44.00 0.00 350.00 15.91 0.64 14.55 0.00 14.55 14.50 63.80 sdx 0.00 0.00 0.00 44.00 0.00 350.00 15.91 0.64 14.55 0.00 14.55 14.48 63.70 md127 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md126 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md125 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md1 0.00 0.00 0.00 41.00 0.00 2624.00 128.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 The same picture on 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 and 4.11 kernel. Any advises would be very helpful. -- Best regards, [COOLCOLD-RIPN] -- 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