* Disks never stop spinning
@ 2014-11-10 18:44 P. Gautschi
2014-11-13 14:05 ` Peter Grandi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: P. Gautschi @ 2014-11-10 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-raid
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I've got an array (on kubuntu 14.10) with 5 WD-RED drives and would like
them to stop rotating when there is no access for 10 minutes.
I used hdparm -S 120 for all of them but they keep on running.
I stopped the arrays but this does not help either. The problem might therefor
be unrelated to mdadm. However stopping idle disks on notebooks and desktops
too should be common and I would assume that the general mechanisms are
working. Also for NAS stopping disks should be widely used.
Any ideas why the disks never enter standby or sleep state or how to solve
the problem?
Patrick
PS: I found a hint mentioning SMART tests running in the background could cause
this problem. As far as I understand the output of smartctl, no tests are running
on my disks.
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IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Reserved: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active mode
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD60EFRX-68MYMN1
Serial Number: WD-WX11D4415118
Firmware Revision: 82.00A82
Transport: Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6, SATA Rev 3.0
Standards:
Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x001f)
Supported: 9 8 7 6 5
Likely used: 9
Configuration:
Logical max current
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heads 16 16
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--
CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors:11721045168
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device size with M = 1024*1024: 5723166 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 6001175 MBytes (6001 GB)
cache/buffer size = unknown
Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 5700
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 32
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
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* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
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* READ_BUFFER command
* NOP cmd
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
Power-Up In Standby feature set
* SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
SET_MAX security extension
* 48-bit Address feature set
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* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
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Media Card Pass-Through
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* Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
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* DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
* Device-initiated interface power management
* Software settings preservation
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* SCT Write Same (AC2)
* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
* DOWNLOAD MICROCODE DMA command
* WRITE BUFFER DMA command
* READ BUFFER DMA command
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
frozen
not expired: security count
supported: enhanced erase
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50014ee0ae896953
NAA : 5
IEEE OUI : 0014ee
Unique ID : 0ae896953
Checksum: correct
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Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
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Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5700 rpm
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ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Nov 10 18:20:06 2014 CET
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SCT Feature Control supported.
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If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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SCT Support Level: 1
Device State: Active (0)
Current Temperature: 31 Celsius
Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature: 28/31 Celsius
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Under/Over Temperature Limit Count: 0/0
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* Re: Disks never stop spinning
2014-11-10 18:44 Disks never stop spinning P. Gautschi
@ 2014-11-13 14:05 ` Peter Grandi
2014-11-14 3:05 ` Patrick Gautschi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Peter Grandi @ 2014-11-13 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux RAID
> I've got an array (on kubuntu 14.10) with 5 WD-RED drives and
> would like them to stop rotating when there is no access for
> 10 minutes. I used hdparm -S 120
That works here for 6 disks on which I have created various
types of MD sets for holding data or for testing.
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1]
md1 : active raid10 sde3[6] sdd3[4] sdb3[0] sdc3[5]
486538976 blocks super 1.0 16K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
md4 : active raid6 sde4[3] sdb4[0] sdg4[7] sdd4[2] sdf4[6] sdc4[1]
973077760 blocks super 1.0 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
md2 : active raid5 sde2[2] sdg2[5] sdf2[3] sdc2[0] sdd2[1]
486538752 blocks super 1.0 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
md0 : active raid10 sde1[3] sdb1[0] sdg1[5] sdf1[4] sdc1[1] sdd1[2]
364904208 blocks super 1.0 16K chunks 2 near-copies [6/6] [UUUUUU]
unused devices: <none>
# hddtemp /dev/sd[bcdef]
/dev/sdb: SAMSUNG HD103UJ: drive is sleeping
/dev/sdc: WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0: drive is sleeping
/dev/sdd: ST1000DM003-9YN162: drive is sleeping
/dev/sde: SAMSUNG HD103SJ: drive is sleeping
/dev/sdf: WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0: drive is sleeping
> for all of them but they keep on running. [ ... ]
That means something else is waking up those disks. To verify
this use something like:
sudo iostat -dkxz 1
or use something like:
sudo sysctl vm/block_dump=1; sleep 120; sudo sysctl vm/block_dump=0
and then look at the debug log to see which inodes get hit.
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* Re: Disks never stop spinning
2014-11-13 14:05 ` Peter Grandi
@ 2014-11-14 3:05 ` Patrick Gautschi
2014-11-14 4:11 ` Brad Campbell
2014-12-04 19:33 ` Phillip Susi
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Patrick Gautschi @ 2014-11-14 3:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Grandi; +Cc: Linux RAID
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> # hddtemp /dev/sd[bcdef]
> /dev/sdb: SAMSUNG HD103UJ: drive is sleeping
> /dev/sdc: WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0: drive is sleeping
> /dev/sdd: ST1000DM003-9YN162: drive is sleeping
> /dev/sde: SAMSUNG HD103SJ: drive is sleeping
> /dev/sdf: WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0: drive is sleeping
Different disks; looks like desktop types.
> That means something else is waking up those disks. To verify
> this use something like:
FS are not mounted and arrays stopped. There is nothing that wakes them up.
If a switch them off manually with hdparm -Y they stay off.
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* Re: Disks never stop spinning
2014-11-14 3:05 ` Patrick Gautschi
@ 2014-11-14 4:11 ` Brad Campbell
2014-12-04 19:33 ` Phillip Susi
1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Brad Campbell @ 2014-11-14 4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Patrick Gautschi, Peter Grandi; +Cc: Linux RAID
On 14/11/14 11:05, Patrick Gautschi wrote:
>> # hddtemp /dev/sd[bcdef]
>> /dev/sdb: SAMSUNG HD103UJ: drive is sleeping
>> /dev/sdc: WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0: drive is sleeping
>> /dev/sdd: ST1000DM003-9YN162: drive is sleeping
>> /dev/sde: SAMSUNG HD103SJ: drive is sleeping
>> /dev/sdf: WDC WD10EZEX-22RKKA0: drive is sleeping
>
> Different disks; looks like desktop types.
>
>> That means something else is waking up those disks. To verify
>> this use something like:
>
> FS are not mounted and arrays stopped. There is nothing that wakes them up.
> If a switch them off manually with hdparm -Y they stay off.
>
Are you polling them with smartmontools? I have a unit here where I had
to add the "standby" :
DEVICESCAN -s (L/../../7/07|S/../../[1-6]/00) -n standby,q -m root -M
exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner
.. clause in smartd.conf. This ensures smartd does not wake the disk
every 15 minutes for it's poll, and only polls if the drive is already
spinning.
Failing that, I'd put it to sleep and it'd wake up on the next 15
minutes smart poll.
Regards,
Brad
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* Re: Disks never stop spinning
2014-11-14 3:05 ` Patrick Gautschi
2014-11-14 4:11 ` Brad Campbell
@ 2014-12-04 19:33 ` Phillip Susi
2014-12-06 15:16 ` P. Gautschi
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Susi @ 2014-12-04 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Patrick Gautschi, Peter Grandi; +Cc: Linux RAID
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On 11/13/2014 10:05 PM, Patrick Gautschi wrote:
>> That means something else is waking up those disks. To verify
>> this use something like:
>
> FS are not mounted and arrays stopped. There is nothing that wakes
> them up. If a switch them off manually with hdparm -Y they stay
> off.
Are you running udisks? If so then that is the culprit. It polls the
drive's SMART stats every 10 minutes unless the drive is already
asleep, so if the timeout is >= 10 minutes ( which it seems WD drives
refuse to go any lower anyhow ), then the drive will never go to
standby. I posted some patches to fix this a while back on the
devkit-devel mailing list but I think the udisks maintainer has still
not gotten around to applying them.
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* Re: Disks never stop spinning
2014-12-04 19:33 ` Phillip Susi
@ 2014-12-06 15:16 ` P. Gautschi
2014-12-08 20:38 ` Phillip Susi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: P. Gautschi @ 2014-12-06 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Phillip Susi; +Cc: Peter Grandi, Linux RAID
> Are you running udisks? If so then that is the culprit. It polls the
> drive's SMART stats every 10 minutes unless the drive is already
> asleep, so if the timeout is>= 10 minutes ( which it seems WD drives
> refuse to go any lower anyhow ), then the drive will never go to
> standby. I posted some patches to fix this a while back on the
> devkit-devel mailing list but I think the udisks maintainer has still
> not gotten around to applying them.
This is indeed the cause in my case. There are the two problems that
overlap: if a shorter time then 10 minutes is set as a standby time,
the WD disk rounds this up to 10 minutes.
And Kubuntu is using udisksd. It is started during a KDE login and
never stopped when logging out.
Is it possible to configure udisks to not do any polling or at a much
longer interval? Or is it possible to safely disable udisksd somehow?
I'm still looking for a practical solution.
regards
Patrick
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* Re: Disks never stop spinning
2014-12-06 15:16 ` P. Gautschi
@ 2014-12-08 20:38 ` Phillip Susi
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Susi @ 2014-12-08 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: P. Gautschi; +Cc: Peter Grandi, Linux RAID
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On 12/6/2014 10:16 AM, P. Gautschi wrote:
>> Are you running udisks? If so then that is the culprit. It
>> polls the drive's SMART stats every 10 minutes unless the drive
>> is already asleep, so if the timeout is>= 10 minutes ( which it
>> seems WD drives refuse to go any lower anyhow ), then the drive
>> will never go to standby. I posted some patches to fix this a
>> while back on the devkit-devel mailing list but I think the
>> udisks maintainer has still not gotten around to applying them.
>
> This is indeed the cause in my case. There are the two problems
> that overlap: if a shorter time then 10 minutes is set as a standby
> time, the WD disk rounds this up to 10 minutes. And Kubuntu is
> using udisksd. It is started during a KDE login and never stopped
> when logging out.
>
> Is it possible to configure udisks to not do any polling or at a
> much longer interval? Or is it possible to safely disable udisksd
> somehow? I'm still looking for a practical solution.
You can build and install my patched version. See:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1281588
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