Subject: RAID tuning
To: NetBSD Users <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/19/2002 23:07:12
What does the following mean (output from systat):
Discs wd4 wd5 cd0 wd0 wd1 fd0 md0 raid 64 fmin
seeks 85 ftarg
xfers 138 137 128 itarg
Kbyte 1256 1249 1256 523 wired
%busy 3.2 2.4 94.4 pdfre
Why is raid 94.4% busy when the components (wd0, wd1) are only 3%
busy? CPU is about 90% idle.
My raid0.conf looks like this:
START array
# numRow numCol numSpare
1 2 0
START disks
/dev/wd0f
/dev/wd1f
START layout
# sectPerSU SUsPerParityUnit SUsPerReconUnit RAID_level_1
128 1 1 1
START queue
fifo 100
#scan 400
Someone said I should be using "scan" instead of "fifo" with IDE disks.
Why is that? Can I change this parameter without initializing the raid
set (ie. losing all my data)?
Thanks,
-jm