Re: Regarding odd RAID5 I/O patterns

2007-06-07 Thread Jon Nelson
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday June 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. now, if I use oflag=direct, the I/O patterns are very strange: 0 (zero) reads from sda or sdb, and 2-3MB/s worth of reads from sdc. 11-12 MB/s writes to sda, and 8-9MB/s writes to sdb and sdc.

Re: Raid-5 long write wait while reading

2007-06-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
tj wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: tj wrote: Thomas Jager wrote: Hi list. I run a file server on MD raid-5. If a client reads one big file and at the same time another client tries to write a file, the thread writing just sits in uninterruptible sleep until the reader has finished. Only very