Issues with GEOM and raid5?

[Lukas Ertl]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Michael wrote:

> I got gvinum working, the array shows up on boot, and everything's fine. But 
> it seems that after I do a *lot* of writes to the drive interesting things 
> start happening. There might even be symptoms going on during these 
> transfers, as I've noticed the transfers stop occasionally for anywhere up to 
> about 10 seconds or so.

Hm, I have no real hint for you, but maybe you could monitor
"vmstat -m | grep GEOM" while stressing the filesystem and look out for 
something unusual.

thanks,
le

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