On 2010-04-20 20:54, Daniele Paoni wrote: > On 04/20/2010 07:35 PM, Jefferson Ogata wrote: >> Fast initialization just means it marks the array as ready and continues >> scrubbing in the background. The scrubbing competes heavily for I/O. >> > Ok I have reinitialized the array with the slow initialization method.
I don't think it actually makes any difference whether you choose "fast" or "slow". >> Use MegaCLI to check initialization status, e.g. "MegaCLI -ldbi >> -showprog -lall -aall". >> > [r...@ns01 daniele]# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -ldbi -showprog -lall > -aall > > Background Initialization on VD #0 is not in Progress. > Background Initialization on VD #1 is not in Progress. If you check shortly after boot, this will be the case. Check again after about 5 minutes. The controller holds off on background initializations for a little while. > [r...@ns01 daniele]# omreport storage vdisk > List of Virtual Disks in the System > > Controller PERC 6/i Integrated (Embedded) > .... > ID : 1 > Status : Ok > Name : Data > State : Ready > HotSpare Policy violated : Not Assigned > Virtual Disk Bad Blocks : Not Applicable > Secured : Not Applicable > Progress : Not Applicable > Layout : RAID-1 > Size : 931.00 GB (999653638144 bytes) > Device Name : /dev/sdd > Bus Protocol : SAS > Media : HDD > Read Policy : Read Ahead > Write Policy : Write Back > Cache Policy : Not Applicable > Stripe Element Size : 64 KB > Disk Cache Policy : Enabled > >> Or look at the disks when you aren't doing anything. Are they both lit >> up heavily? >> > The disks are 200Km away from me :-( so I cannot check them. > > I tried to create the filesystem after the slow initialization but the > issue is still present. > > A simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd1 exibits the same problem , after > 30 seconds the load is already about 46 and all the waiting processes > are in state D _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
