From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: seth vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Slow reconstruction
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:46:55 -0400
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On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:31 +0100, John Rowe wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions. 
> 
> /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max had the value "10000", changing it to
> 200000 didn't make a difference. hdparm looks OK to me:
> 

did you raise speed_limit_min??

if you didn't then you're probably being hit by the 'only use idle io'
problem.

-sv