Re: checking state of RAID (for automated notifications)

2006-09-07 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Mike Hardy wrote: berlin % rpm -qf /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/contrib/check_linux_raid.pl nagios-plugins-1.4.1-1.2.fc4.rf It is built in to my nagios plugins package at least, and works great. All right, I didn't see it. I was thinking of monitoring remote servers; I wrote something very

Re: Superblock checksum problems

2006-09-07 Thread Josh Litherland
Apparently, the card I had is incompatibile in some way with the motherboard I was using, a Via chipset board. Both the cards work fine in a different motherboard. I guess this is case closed. Thanks to everyone! -- Josh Litherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Raid5 reads and cpu

2006-09-07 Thread Rob Bray
On Monday August 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might be a dumb question, but what causes md to use a large amount of cpu resources when reading a large amount of data from a raid1 array? I assume you meant raid5 there. md/raid5 shouldn't use that much CPU when reading. It does use

Re: Raid5 reads and cpu

2006-09-07 Thread Rob Bray
Rob Bray wrote: This might be a dumb question, but what causes md to use a large amount of cpu resources when reading a large amount of data from a raid1 array? Examples are on a 2.4GHz AMD64, 2GB, 2.6.15.1 (I realize there are md enhancements to later versions; I had some other unrelated

Re: PROBLEM: system crash on AMD64 with 2.6.17.11 while accessing 3TB Software-RAID5

2006-09-07 Thread Ralf Herrmann
Dear Mr. Davidson and Mr. Brown, It certainly is a legitimate question, and marginal power would have been at the end of my list as well... However, if all else fails, try formatting the new drives to use only the size of the old drive capacity (RAID on small partitions) and see if that