Hm ah nice.
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.00    0.00    5.05   94.95    0.00    0.00
Device:    rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
await  svctm  %util
sda        277.78   0.00 100.00  1.01 23660.61     4.04   468.56     0.68 
6.73   6.49  65.56
sdb         97.98   0.00 104.04  3.03 12836.36    12.12   240.00     1.25 
16.51   3.29  35.25
md0          0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00 
0.00   0.00   0.00
md2          0.00   0.00 578.79  0.00 36496.97     0.00   126.12     0.00 
0.00   0.00   0.00
md3          0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00 
0.00   0.00   0.00
md1          0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00 
0.00   0.00   0.00
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           0.99    0.00    5.94   93.07    0.00    0.00
Device:    rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
await  svctm  %util
sda        205.94   0.00 74.26  0.99 17841.58     3.96   474.32     0.47 
6.34   6.30  47.43
sdb        213.86   0.00 76.24  0.00 18186.14     0.00   477.09     0.52 
6.57   6.55  49.90
Both a+b are both reading simultaneously. On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Thursday, 03.08.2006 at 15:30 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:I've only ran the benchmarks on a single controller. Run a test for me, read a lot of data on the drive and show us iostat -x -k 1 and see if it reads from both drives at the same time.http://www.sungate.co.uk/tmp/iostat.log - iostat log while cat-ing a large file on /dev/md2 $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[0] sda2[1] 19534976 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 4000064 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sdb4[0] sda4[1] 156071360 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sda1[1] 19534912 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> Not entirely sure how to interpret the results, but there is some suggestion that it is reading from both disks... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92