Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:46:01 +0100 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: Slow disks. |
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:52:08PM -0800, David Rees wrote: > 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.
No, the machine has trouble 24/7, I seriously doubt that it would be running smart tests 24/7.
Roger.
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