From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <51DBDDE8.3010206@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:54:48 +0200 From: Zdenek Kabelac MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Very slow i/o after snapshotting Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Cc: Micky Dne 9.7.2013 03:37, Micky napsal(a): > On a machine, where weekly snapshots are created for dumping raw data, > the overall disk i/o has drastically degraded to few megabytes per > second. It is quite random and so slow that commands freeze often. > > I was using chunk size of 512K and same byte size with dd. > > Is it quite common; I read that such freezes require a reboot. Is > there a way to avert? > What am I missing here? Is this supposed to be a bug report ? I need crystal ball first ;) So far I've no idea about disks/tables in use, system/kernel in use, lvm version in use.... Zdenek