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-the cd rom should hinder your performance much.
oops... I mean "shouldn't"
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, David Holl wrote:
-Depending on your partitioning, it is most likely reconstructing the whole
-15 gigs.
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-the cd rom should hinder your performance much.
-
-With no out standing file system requests, raid should be reconstructing
-as fast as possible. But if there is activity on the system, a command
-like this may help:
- echo 8192 > /proc/sys/dev/md/speed-limit
-(you may want to double check that name - I don't have a linux box handy)
-
-This is the minimum speed that raid will maintain with other activity on
-the system. Use cat /proc/sys/dev/md/speed-limit to check the current
-value.
-
-Uncertain where the kernel panic may have originated. I've heard
-reference to ide patches? (raid stress tests ide and scsi a great deal)
-
-On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Kelina wrote:
-
--Hey all,
--
--I'm running a new box with redhat6.1 and 2 5400rpm 15 gig harddisks.
--There's also a cd-rom drive
--on the same controller. Both the hd's are running as masters as a Raid-1
--array, and cd cd-rom as
--primary slave. While trying to get my isdn to work (i managed that now btw)
--i managed to get 2
--hard lockups and one kernel panic which complained about interrupts. This,
--Raid-1 didn't like so it
--started reconstruction, it seems to be working but it's taking *forever*.
--Now my questions are these:
--
-- -Is reconstruction supposed to take over 600 minutes?
-- -Does it recontruct the whole 15 gig's, or just the 3 gig of data? If so
--will i need to wait a whole
-- day when my hd is full?
-- -Does having the cd-rom on the same controller degrade performance, even
--tho it's not used or
-- indeed even mounted?
--
--If you could answer any/all of these questions,
--
--Thx Surge
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