Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: For your next system I highly recommend setting it up with RAID. It makes problems like these so much easier. [Of course because of the problem with flooding in Thailand and human reaction to it the cost of disk drives is soaring right now. Unfortunate timing to lose a

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read errors - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail, and its internal code

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read errors - if that's higher than 0, the drive

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Miles Fidelman writes: Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read errors - if

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Dom
On 09/11/11 12:50, Alberto Luaces wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:43:54 -0800, David wrote in message 4eb729ca.1090...@holgerdanske.com: On 11/06/2011 03:13 PM, David Purton wrote: Fairly recently - maybe in the last few months - but it's hard to tell, the disk performance has dropped through the floor. First, make at least two

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David Purton wrote: Everything takes forever to load (including booting), but then runs ok once loaded. Could DMA be disabled now? Taking a long time to read initially but running okay afterward would match that symptom. Because after the initial read it should be in filesystem buffer cache.

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread David Purton
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Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
David Purton wrote: Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does smartctl say about the health of your drive? smartctl -H /dev/sda try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: David Purton wrote: Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does smartctl say about the health of your drive? smartctl -H /dev/sda try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Doug
On 11/09/2011 12:13 AM, David Purton wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: David Purton wrote: Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does smartctl say about the health of your drive? smartctl -H /dev/sda try smartctl -A /dev/sda

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David Purton wrote: But I think DMA is enabled on the disk. From dmesg: [1.808090] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) I believe all SATA interfaces are go for DMA. Ha! I just found some disk related errors in syslog: Nov 2 12:10:58 swires kernel: [33736.415350] sd

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read errors - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail, and its internal code is spending

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read errors - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail,

Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-06 Thread David Purton
Hi everyone, I have an ASUS 1005PE and have been running sid on it for the last couple of years with regular updates. Fairly recently - maybe in the last few months - but it's hard to tell, the disk performance has dropped through the floor. Everything takes forever to load (including booting),

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-06 Thread David Christensen
On 11/06/2011 03:13 PM, David Purton wrote: Fairly recently - maybe in the last few months - but it's hard to tell, the disk performance has dropped through the floor. First, make at least two complete back up sets and store one off-site. It could be a hardware problem. Your hard drive