Matt wrote: >> That's working normally with the sync completed. Mirrors should run at >> close to the speed of a single drive. Maybe you are just expecting too >> much from SATA or you have something like an updatedb running. An >> 'hdparm -tT' against the partitions and md devices should give you an >> idea of what the drives can do. And top might show what's causing the >> load (but maybe not if it is mostly waiting on disk seeks). >> > > There should currently be virtually NO disk I/O on this box right now. > Its a bare install and I have not installed any apps yet. Is there > an easy way to tell whats using all the I/O? The drive activity light > never goes off. I did a torch in my firewall router and there is no > network activity going to it. > top, atop, lsof