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Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> wrote: > > I'm running bkcvs HEAD on a newly installed system, and started > copying files over to my RAID 5 from older IDE disks. When I copy > these files, the system becomes unusable. Specifically, any disk > access on the 3ware array, no matter how simple, even starting 'vi' on > a file, takes minutes or eternity to complete. Suspending the process > doing the copying doesn't even help much, because the LEDs on the card > continue blinking for about 30 seconds after the suspension. This > happens whether the IDE drive is using DMA or not. It seems that some > kind of insane queueing is going on. Are there parameters worth > playing with? Should I try the deadline I/O scheduler? An update to the 3ware driver was merged yesterday. Have you used earlier 2.5 kernels? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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