On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:04:07 +0100 Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote:
... > > Then I tried another video, again with the settings you > suggested, and it stuttered. There were small pauses when > the system did some stuff, and when I did my dd test, the > pauses were as long as five seconds. FIVE SECONDS! > > Wonko > Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your disk... smartctl -t short /dev/sda and after some minutes smartctl --all /dev/sda If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could try the extended or long tests with smartctl. I had a bad disk here, which resulted in slow IO, but not complete failure. Smart detected this immediately. Sorry, I do not know how to check disks with LVM. Urs
