Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-15 Thread Matthew Roberts
Marco Peereboom wrote: First let me defend softraid. The rebuild code is designed to offer maximum data protection. With this is mind certain assumptions were made. Sorry... I haven't stated that I think that data protection is king. Any performance increase that could compromise the disk co

Re: softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-14 Thread Matthew Roberts
I wrote: I have been experimenting with a softraid mirror, using two cheap SATA disks. In general the performance is very good - except when rebuilding. A quick set of sums suggests that the problem is seek time. The disks are 7200rpm, therefore one can hope for 120 seeks per second. "systat io

softraid performance problem when rebuilding

2010-04-13 Thread Matthew Roberts
I have been experimenting with a softraid mirror, using two cheap SATA disks. In general the performance is very good - except when rebuilding. A quick set of sums suggests that the problem is seek time. The disks are 7200rpm, therefore one can hope for 120 seeks per second. "systat iostat" (whi