From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:11:55 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] performance problems In-Reply-To: <20000605160017.28678.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Campbell Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Chris Campbell wrote: > We are using LVM on a (hardware) RAID array and are > having some performance problems. File copying is > very slow and one of the guys using it reported that > untarring was very sluggish, and he got I/O errors. > Is this a known problem? I believe we are using 0.8i > and we are using 2.2.13 kernel. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. did you specify for any LV's to be contigious? i've seen something similar where i get I/O errors because (i suspect) an contigious LV can't find any contigious blocks. (even though there's plenty of space in the VG. -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt ------------------------------------------- Fortune: MAC user's dynamic debugging list evaluator? Never heard of that.