Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:26:35 +0200 | From | Jorge Nerin <> | Subject | Re: Software RAID |
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Steve Hill wrote: > > Has anyone had any problems with software RAID causing high loadaverage > peaks? I've got a number of i586 boxes here, dual IDE controllers, one > drive on each controller. They're using RAID 1 across the two > drives. Every few hours, the load average peaks very high, and it appears > to be the RAID (identacal boxes, running identical software but without > the RAID don't seem to have the problem). > > Is this normal, or is something broken on these boxes? > > -- > > - Steve Hill > System Administrator Email: steve@navaho.co.uk > Navaho Technologies Ltd. Tel: +44-870-7034015
Well I do have a 486dx2 (66Mhz-24Mb RAM) Root RAID 0 using three disks, and as far as I can see there are no spikes and the box runs smoothly.
Perhaps it's a cron job or some daemon.
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