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From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID1 resync speed in 2.6.0
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:03:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xhdz9xrtg.fsf@ford.guide> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yw1xptdy15hu.fsf@ford.guide

mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:

> I just set up a largish (~100 GB) RAID1 array under Linux 2.6.0.  Now,
> /proc/mdstat is happily telling me that the resync will be completed
> in 3700 minutes.  This seems terribly slow to me.  At first, it
> wouldn't work at all, complaining about "bio too big", so I changed
> RESYNC_BLOCK_SIZE to 32k.

I found it.  It's a raid1 on top of raid0.  Apparently the raid1
resync considered the I/O from the raid0 devices to the physical disks
as normal I/O and reduced the speed.  I increased the min rate in
/proc/... and now it's resyncing at 40 MB/s.  Much better.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se


      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-05 20:54 RAID1 resync speed in 2.6.0 Måns Rullgård
2004-01-06 11:03 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]

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