Messages in this thread | | | From | David Rees <> | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:52:08 -0800 | Subject | Re: Slow disks. |
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.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.
-Dave
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