On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:Did you look at "cat /proc/mdstat" ?? What sort of speed was the checkAround 44MB/s.
running at?
I do use the following optimization, perhaps a bad idea if I want other
processes to 'stay alive'?
echo "Setting minimum resync speed to 200MB/s..."
echo "This improves the resync speed from 2.1MB/s to 44MB/s"
echo 200000 > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_speed_min
echo 200000 > /sys/block/md1/md/sync_speed_min
echo 200000 > /sys/block/md2/md/sync_speed_min
echo 200000 > /sys/block/md3/md/sync_speed_min
echo 200000 > /sys/block/md4/md/sync_speed_min
md RAID1 resync reacts *extremely* badly to CFQ. Just a data point, you may
want to check on it. Might mean other RAID types also get screwed, and also
that md "check" is also disturbed by CFQ (or disturbs CFQ, whatever).
I reverted everything here to non-CFQ while the RAID did its resync (which
fixed all issues immediately), and we went back to 2.6.16.x later for other
reasons.
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