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Message-ID: <AANLkTikbNrBqT2jzSVS6y9FNh+mWoSZDBeJHozN5O05K@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:13:10 -0800 From: David Rees <drees76@...il.com> To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...wizard.nl> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Slow disks. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...wizard.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:52:08PM -0800, David Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...wizard.nl> wrote: >> > A friend of mine has a server in a datacenter somewhere. His machine >> > is not working properly: most of his disks take 10-100 times longer >> > to process each IO request than normal. >> >> I've seen noticeable slowdowns before when the disks were running long >> SMART tests. It doesn't seem to affect all drives the same. The >> smartctl data you posted didn't say whether or not the disks were >> currently running a SMART test, but it's worth double checking. > > No, the machine has trouble 24/7, I seriously doubt that it would be > running smart tests 24/7. It can not hurt to check the status of the disk to be sure... -Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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