From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matthew Mitchell <matthew@geodev.com>
Subject: RE: Is my raid setup speed ok?!
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:06:46 -0600
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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:49, Guy wrote:

> It would be nice if /proc/mdstat would display the current min and max speed
> limits.  It would also be nice if there was a place you could set them just
> once.  Maybe /etc/raidtab.  Maybe a new file /etc/md.conf.  I would prefer
> to have an overall throughput speed limit, and a per array group speed
> limit.  The overall throughput speed limit would not be per disk, but total
> disk i/o.

Setting it at boot time is a job for sysctl.  See /etc/sysctl.conf
and/or man sysctl.

-m