From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Collectively Unconscious <swarm@warpcore.provalue.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I/O problem with sustained writes
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 10:57:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA03354.A07F5179@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AA00D5A.44FA21D0@mandrakesoft.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103021455500.29369-100000@warpcore.provalue.net>
Collectively Unconscious wrote:
>
> We are having a problem with writes.
> They start at 14 M/s for the first hour and then drop to 2.5 M/s and stay
> that way. Reads do not seem effected and we've noticed this on the 2.2.16,
> 2.2.17, 2.2.18 and now the 2.2.19pre11 kernels.
>
> These are SMP P-IIIs from 450 to 800 MHz. Redhat 6.2
I've seen something similar on Seagate ST313021A IDE drives.
After a few minutes their read throughput falls from 20
megs/sec to about 5. Issuing *any* drive-setting command
brings the throughput back. Even a command which the disk
doesn't support.
So I have a cron job which runs `hdparm -A1' once per minute.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-02 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-26 10:32 PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On) Manfred Spraul
2001-02-26 20:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-26 20:58 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-03-02 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-02 21:03 ` I/O problem with sustained writes Collectively Unconscious
2001-03-02 23:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-03-02 22:20 ` PROBLEM: Network hanging - Tulip driver with Netgear (Lite-On) Manfred Spraul
2001-03-02 22:48 ` Donald Becker
2001-02-27 6:16 ` Pat Verner
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