On Wednesday 09 July 2008, "Phillip Sitbon" <phillip@sitbon.net> wrote:
> I only have two fast SATA drives on software RAID, but that really isn't
> the issue- while the copy commands are going, disk activity is relatively
> low.
Define low. 2 disks maxed out doing random I/O could show as little as 2 or
3 MB/sec in vmstat.
You say one CPU core is maxed out - what state is it mostly in at 100% -
user, system, or wait?
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Alan