On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:36 -0500, Zachariah Mully wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:56 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> > It may be that the software RAID 5 is your problem. Without the
> > use of NVRAM for a cache, all of the writes need all 3 disks.
> > That will cause quite a bottle-neck.
> > 
> > Ken
> 
> And if you can, try to get the mailstore over onto a RAID1. RAID5 is
> only good for long rebuilds and slow writes. Since you've already got
> DRBD setup, can you gank something to add as a second DRBD replica,
> which you can either test a single disk setup, or a RAID1 setup?

Err... I thought you could setup drbd in a multiple replica config, but
I was mistaken...

Z

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