I am wondering whether the raid rebuild process will impact the system performance significantly or not. Will the server be able to respond with a reasonable delay during the rebuild process?
Another question came to my mind. Is there any way we can give priority to the disk rebuild process? For example, can we limit the rate at which the data is read/written? Of course, this may be risky because we may have another failure during the rebuild. Let us focus on the performance aspect and ignore this risk!
I am talking about Linux raid mdadm.
Answer
In my experience the system stays quite usable during the rebuild. Of course, this depends on your hardware and workload. Is it mostly read or is there usually lots of write activity? On the top of my hat I would say the rebuild slows things down around 20-30 percent.
You can tune the rebuild rate with dev.raid.speed_limit_{min,max} sysctl tunables. By default the minimum rebuild rate is 1000 kilobytes per second and the maximum 100 000 kilobytes per second. To tune them, use for example
sysctl -w dev.raid.speed_limit_max=10000
or to make changes permanent, use
echo dev.raid.speed_limit_max=10000 >>/etc/sysctl.conf and activate the changes with
sysctl -p
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