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From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID?
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:33:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <edltjq$jo4$3@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060905154156.GB28548@scavenger.homeip.net

Benjamin Schieder <blindcoder@scavenger.homeip.net> wrote:
> I have made the experience that long tests slow down the raid to a point
> where the system becomes unusable.

Even though we're quite off-topic here with that since it's more
SMART-related... this is at least unusual.
I'm also running regular SMART selftests (short daily, long weekly) and
usually they don't affect drive's performance very much. However,
whenever I experienced massive slow-downs while selftests are running,
this did always point to disk problems... too much (and strategic
disadvantageous) reallocated sectors (keep an ear on the disks, hear
them seek()ing :)), non-reallocatable sectors or just temperature (for
example, WD drives tend to show a bad performance when getting too hot).


regards
   Mario
-- 
But after a while I learned the trick of speaking fast. You don't have
to think any faster; just use twice as many words to say everything.
                                -- Paul Graham


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-06  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-05 12:48 Care and feeding of RAID? Paul Waldo
2006-09-05 13:14 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-05 16:56   ` Patrik Jonsson
2006-09-05 17:04     ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 13:19 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 15:03   ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 15:41     ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-05 18:29       ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 20:57         ` Luca Berra
2006-09-06  7:12           ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-06 18:49             ` Luca Berra
2006-09-10  7:36               ` Benjamin Schieder
     [not found]           ` <44FDF08D.8000504@maine.edu>
2006-09-06  7:16             ` Luca Berra
2006-09-06  7:33       ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [this message]
2006-09-05 16:23     ` Mike Hardy
2006-09-05 17:02     ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 17:46       ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-06  0:04         ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-06  7:41       ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-09-09 15:56         ` Nix
2006-09-05 17:09     ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-05 20:17       ` Richard Scobie
2006-09-05 17:57     ` Rev. Jeffrey Paul
2006-09-05 18:35       ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 17:39 ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-09 15:58   ` Nix
2006-09-10  5:23   ` dean gaudet

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