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From: "Roger Lucas" <roger@planbit.co.uk>
To: 'Sevrin Robstad' <quackyo@start.no>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: bad performance on RAID 5
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:18:28 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c73c7c$5404cb00$8001a8c0@wolverine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701181731080.3052@twinlark.arctic.org>

Hi Sevrin,

Are you sure all the disks are working OK?

We saw a problem here with a 4-disk SATA array.  The array was working
without errors but was _very_ slow.  When we checked each disk individually,
we found one disk was reporting SMART errors and running slow.  We removed
it and replaced it with a new disk and the RAID array ran at full speed
again.  Further tests on the removed disk found that it was having a lot of
problems but just about hanging in there (although taking a long time for
each operation) - hence the RAID array didn't mark it as faulty.

I would check the SMART logs with smartctl to see if anything looks a bit
wrong and try benchmarking the disks individually too.

- Roger


      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-20 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-17 21:33 bad performance on RAID 5 Sevrin Robstad
2007-01-17 22:38 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-18  9:06   ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2007-01-18 18:20     ` Sevrin Robstad
2007-01-18 19:56       ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2007-01-18 23:01       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-18 18:19   ` Sevrin Robstad
2007-01-18 19:02     ` Mark Hahn
2007-01-18 20:47       ` Sevrin Robstad
2007-01-18 18:29 ` Steve Cousins
2007-01-18 20:43   ` Sevrin Robstad
2007-01-18 23:10   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-21 17:08     ` Nix
2007-01-21 19:09       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-19  1:33 ` dean gaudet
2007-01-20 10:18   ` Roger Lucas [this message]

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