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From: John Rowe <rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Slow reconstruction
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:49:35 +0100
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> 
> did you raise speed_limit_min??
> 
> if you didn't then you're probably being hit by the 'only use idle io'
> problem.

That's fixed it! It's now going along at around 5.7 MB/s which isn't
huge but is around 11 times what it was. Many thanks.

But I'm a bit surprised this makes a difference because there is no
other real IO going on.

John