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SubjectRe: Slowing down disk access?
I have nearly an identical system as yours. Dual 1.6 Athlons,
two 3ware 7850's, 8 disks on each but with 160 gig drives.
I have kernel 2.4.19 on it with ext3. My RAID is arranged
slightly different however. I have each controller do a RAID 5
and then I software mirror the two. This box gets hammered
pretty hard at times over NFS and other services but I have
never seen this type of behaviour come out of it. Are you
sure one of your drives isn't going bad, it looks the error
is always coming from unit #7. Do all of them do this?

Steve

Robert L. Harris wrote:

> I've got a system I need to slow down disk access on it would seem. The
>syerver, a dual 1.5Ghz Athalon has two 3ware IDE controllers, 8 disks
>each for a total of sixteen 180 Gig disks. This system is laid out in
>four RAID5 arrays that it shares out via NFS. kernel 2.4.19-ac4, ext3
>file systems. I've got 7 of these.
>
> This works great and provides a LOT of cheap disk that we use for
>staging backups before cloning off to tape.
>
> The problem is that when the array's get pounded HARD, such as when
>legato is cleaning it's file devices (nsrstage -C) the machine will lock
>up and spew errors to my console:
>
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>3w-xxxx: scsi1: AEN: WARNING: ATA port timeout: Port #7.
>
> This requires a hard reboot. If I use the magic keys and reset it then
>it goes down but doesn't come back up properly, usually dieing around
>the LILO area, I believe the array or disks are left in an odd state.
>
> Is there a way to actually slow down the disk access/read/write other
>than re-making the filesystems? On the other systems the chunk size is
>at either 32K or 128K. On this one in particular the chunk size is
>1024K which was determined by running a number of tests (bonnie, nfs
>reads/writes) and was found to be about the fastest for our money's
>worth. The disk hangups didn't appear until just recently. If there's
>no other choise I can leave the disks as read only until the data rolls
>off then remake them in 32 or 64K.
>
>Any other thoughts?
> Robert
>
>
>
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