Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
I have recently upgraded my system to 8.0, and in the course of doing so, have migrated most filesystems onto a new drive. I have noticed, since the upgrade, several instances where a very long pause occurs during which time one or more process is in uninterruptible device wait. This seems to

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:46 AM, A. Wright and...@qemg.org wrote: I have recently upgraded my system to 8.0, and in the course of doing so, have migrated most filesystems onto a new drive. Did you dd it across? If so, that's kind of a no-no in some situtation as the boundries won't be

Re: [#24493945] Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread dedicated
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Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:46 AM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: While I will run some further tests here, I thought I would ask: Is anyone else seeing poor disk I/O scheduling or locking behaviour in 8.0? Hi, On my backup server I am seeing somewhat better throughput/performance, at least

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:46 AM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts on how to conclusively prove that the drive is at fault? I have not seen any errors logged to dmesg. Start with smartmontools to ask your disk if it has logged any errors and check

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 12:48 PM, A. Wright wrote: So I ran the short test, and am now running the long test. After the short test, I have been examining the output (using smartctl -a), and there seem to be no errors reports. Show us the output of smartctl -a...? It can be a bit difficult

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:48 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: I just noticed, however, the following two interesting lines that /var/log/messages seems to have acquired: May 12 15:44:00 qemg kernel: ad8: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED May 12 16:05:27 qemg kernel: swap_pager:

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
Sorry to follow myself up . . . On Wed, 12 May 2010, A. Wright wrote: I just noticed, however, the following two interesting lines that /var/log/messages seems to have acquired: May 12 15:44:00 qemg kernel: ad8: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED May 12

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 12:48 PM, A. Wright wrote: So I ran the short test, and am now running the long test. After the short test, I have been examining the output (using smartctl -a), and there seem to be no errors reports. Show us the output of

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a number of people complaining about similar issues where the drive

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 1:27 PM, A. Wright wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - 383 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0032 100 253 000Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.netmailto:m...@sentex.net wrote: At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Thanks for real data to work from. Thanks for the assistance! There's no signs of surface failure with high reallocated sectors or anything, but your drive is parking it's heads nearly 100 times an hour. Someone else suggested this was a green

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, A. Wright and...@qemg.org wrote: This is indeed one of the so-called eco drives. The controller is set to SATA (no mention of ahci, though I will now look at it as suggested earlier to see if I can control the problem that way). In addition to what I

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, A. Wright and...@qemg.orgmailto:and...@qemg.org wrote: As far as I can tell, it is a standard 512 byte sector. The general lack of documentation with this drive (shipped in a plastic coffin -- the only docs