From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F30B9C1.4050400@conterra.de> From: Dieter Stueken MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How long does PVmove take References: <200308051754.13652.bjzolp@wisc.edu> <20030805225849.GF7336@questra.com> <200308051823.30514.bjzolp@wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200308051823.30514.bjzolp@wisc.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Aug 6 03:19:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com B. J. Zolp wrote: > Its been at 80-98% cpu the whole time too. I have a feeling > something is wrong. Have a look at the device settings by "hdparm /dev/hdx" to see, if DMA was disabled. If it was turned off, you should also have a look into your syslog for IDE bad sector errors occurred. If so, the linux IDE driver will switch off DMA immediately, as some years ago, buggy IDE controller caused this kind of problem. Nowerdays this cause of errors became quite unlikely. Instead it most likely there is (or was) really some bad sector on your disk, and the error has nothing to do with the use of DMA mode (but may cause further problem for pvmove). Summary: swich on dma mode again (hdparm -d 1...). If you don't have some very aged PII board you may even tell the driver, not to swich off DMA for each error "hdparm -k 1..". But you should watch out for any disk erros very carefully, and use some diagnostic tools to monitor your disks, i.E. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Dieter. -- Dieter St�ken, con terra GmbH, M�nster stueken@conterra.de http://www.conterra.de/ (0)251-7474-501