Nicos Gollan said: > Hi all... > > I just started building a software RAID1 array on two IDE disks. Now I'm a > little unsure whether it's running like it should. Looking at > /proc/mdstat, I'm shown a speed of about 275K/sec and an estimated > remaining time somewhat short of 70(!!) hours. Is this normal? > /proc/ide/via says that the disks are using UDMA33, hdparm happily agrees > but I've still got a load of 3.00.
how big is the array? I have dual WD 100GB drives(8MB cache each) on software raid 1 connected to a promise PCI ATA/100 controller and to synch the array(linux 2.2.19 w/raid 0.90) it takes about an hour. 275kB/s seems a bit slow, what kind of disks are they? maybe you should get a better IDE controller for faster performance. the fastest sync I've seen is on one of my ultra2 scsi systems, with raid 1 it runs at a sustained 22-24Mbytes/s! load of 3 doesn't sound too unusual, I would probably expect at least a load of 2. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
