<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200504130816.21938.techlist@voyager.phys.utk.edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello, Is it possible to increase reconstruction rate for software RAID 5, or is it hard-coded (1M/s) in the kernel ?</pre> </blockquote> /etc/sysctl.conf Add the lines: dev.raid.speed_limit_max = 200000 dev.raid.speed_limit_min = 1000 and change it to the values you desire. After editing /etc/sysctl you will need to rerun sysctl to apply your changes. "sysctl -p" Steve </body> </html>