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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Linux-Raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID-6 question.
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:29:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4920BB05.3050206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811101101530.25411@p34.internal.lan>

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> The sync_speed_max was the default as well until I changed it, once I
> lowered
> the speed, the system was functional again.  By default its set quite high,
> this appeared to be the root cause of the problem.
> 

You probably ran out of CPU.  2-disk RAID-6 recovery is very CPU intensive.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-10 11:56 RAID-6 question Justin Piszcz
2008-11-10 16:02 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-17  0:29   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-11-17  1:01     ` NeilBrown
2008-11-17  9:42     ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-17 16:09       ` H. Peter Anvin

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