On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:51:29PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Greg Byshenk wrote:
[...] > >This happened four times (with the same errors that have been discussed > >here), running 6.1 STABLE as of June 22. Before attempting to RMA the > >drives, I tried an updated kernel, 6.1 STABLE as of July 19. Strangely > >enough, the problems disappeared. > >So, while I have not checked everything that has changed, it _might_ be > >worth trying 6.1 STABLE... > I have problems with 6.1-RELEASE same as with 6.1-STABLE from August 2. > I can try newer STABLE, but as I see on cvsweb, there are not much > changes in ATA driver sources, only new chipsets added. It is only an idea, based on something that worked for me. And, as I said, my situation is not exactly the same as the others. > It is strange to me, that I can see significant changes of read/write > speed. (I am running nonstop tests with writing disk full of files, > delete them, and start again + generating graphs) Speed vary from > 2.5MB/s to 11MB/s by jumps. Not continuous from the lowest to the > highest. Writing is for example 3MB/s for 20 hours, then jump to 10MB/s > and after some time (6 - 20 hours) jump down to about 3MB/s. > After some days of testing, disk disappear, system reboots itself, > resynchronize gmirror and work for next few days till the next disk lose. > Also earlier synchronization was done after 1:30 hour (at about 30MB/s), > now synchronization run at lower speeds - from 2.5MB/s to 15MB/s, so the > whole synchronization is done after more then 5 hours (the longest was > 20 hours to synchronize 250GB HDDs) > I don't know what more can I test, what more could be done to solve > these problems. :( You are using gmirror, which I am not, so the situations are not analogous, since my situation was with h/w RAID. And I have no direct experience with gmirror (I use gvinum on a couple of secondary systems, but those are SCSI based). Does the output of 'systat -vm' tell you anything of interest? That is, are the disks running at or close to 100%, are the CPUs fully loaded, or anything else...? -- greg byshenk - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leiden, NL _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"