Very low disk performance on 5.x
Petri Helenius
pete at he.iki.fi
Mon May 2 06:23:32 PDT 2005
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <42761FA7.1030500 at centtech.com>, Eric Anderson writes:
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>>I'll be honest here, I don't care much if the speed difference between
>>4.X and 5.X is measureable, or whatever. What I find is a little
>>telling of an issue somewhere, is that READS are slower than WRITES!
>>This is totally bogus to me - [...]
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>If the disk has bad sectors or other hardware issues, this is not
>an atypical result.
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The drives I have report this using SMART and the counters stay at zero.
Yes, we've seen the counters go nonzero when problems do exist.
Pete
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