[ale] RAID recovery speed

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 11 12:05:01 EST 2005


Is there any reason(s) not to add this setting to start-up scripts?

Tia,

-Jim P.

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> I do that regularly.  Kick up both the Min and Max.  If the system is
> under heavey load though it may take a while.  The system won't penalize
> the apps over a raid rebuild.
> 
> Robert
> 
> Thus spake Dow_Hurst (dhurst at mindspring.com):
> 
>> May I "echo 2048 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min" to speed up the rebuild of a disk that was kicked out of a RAID5 array?  The rebuild is running at 1032K/sec and is at 88%.  That has taken 1.5 days minimum to get this far.  I was looking around using Google for the answer and never found anything on doing this during a rebuild.
>> Thanks,
>> Dow
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