On 10/1/12 4:06 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 01/10/12 23:38, Stephen Thompson wrote: >> >> More importantly, I realized that my testing 6 months ago was not on >> all 4 of my drives, but only 2 of them. Today, I discovered one of my >> drives (untested in the past) is getting 1/2 the throughput for random >> data writes as the others!! > > "smartctl -a /dev/sg(drive)" will tell you a lot > > Put a cleaning tape in it.... > > > > >
Cleaning tape did not improve results. I see some errors in the counter log on the problem drive, but I see even more errors on another drive which isn't having a throughput problem (specifically SL500 Drive 1 is the lower throughput, but C4 Drive 1 actually has a higher error count). SL500 Drive 0 (~60MB/s random data throughput) ============= Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 SL500 Drive 1 (~30MB/s random data throughput) ============= Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 write: 10454 0 0 0 821389 0.000 0 C4 Drive 0 (~60MB/s random data throughput) ========== Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 2 0 0 0 2 0.000 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 C4 Drive 1 (~60MB/s random data throughput) ========== Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 2 0 0 0 2 0.000 0 write: 18961 0 0 0 48261 0.000 0 Stephen -- Stephen Thompson Berkeley Seismological Laboratory step...@seismo.berkeley.edu 215 McCone Hall # 4760 404.538.7077 (phone) University of California, Berkeley 510.643.5811 (fax) Berkeley, CA 94720-4760 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users