I did try changing those values but no that high. I did not find any information as to what that value could be.
I will try to crank it up more.

What about speed_limit_min? Should I leave that alone?

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:31 -0700, Curtis Rempel wrote:
Quoting Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Creating my own distribution for my own servers, based on Debian. When
> it comes time to create the raid partions using mdadm I do so in the way
> pointed out to me on all the web sites I have found that talk about it.
> 
> # My install script does this
> echo -en "y\r" | mdadm --create "/dev/md0" --level 1 --raid-devices=2
> "/dev/hda5" "/dev/hdc5
> watch "cat /proc/mdstat"
> 
> The problem is that this is very very slow. A 40GB partition has be
> going all morning (4 hours) so far and it is only up to about 80% done.
> 
> If I use Mandrake to do an install with the same partitions the section
> where the installer builds the RAID only takes about 30 minutes to do
> the same job.
> 
> Any ideas how I could make the mdadm create new blank RAID partitions
> faster?

Roy,

You may want to check to see if there are differences between Debian and
Mandrake in /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max

If so, wind it up a little tighter using:

echo -n 500000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max

Hope that helps,

Curtis


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