Re: system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/04/07, Dan Bar Dov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot tell from the clip, I think its native SATA since it maps to IRQ 16. However I don't know if it is using AHCI. Check out your BIOS next time you boot. Native SATA support in latest kernels is stable. It actually started wit the early

Re: system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Bar Dov
I cannot tell from the clip, I think its native SATA since it maps to IRQ 16. However I don't know if it is using AHCI. Check out your BIOS next time you boot. Native SATA support in latest kernels is stable. It actually started wit the early days of 2.6 so its not that recent. The various librar

Re: system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/04/07, Arieh Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, output of vmstat: > > # vmstat 5 > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- > cpu > r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy > id wa > 2 13100 10448 232800 331344

Re: system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/04/07, Dan Bar Dov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you sure the SATA disks are configured as SATA in the BIOS (enhanced/AHCI), and not emulated to PATA, then mapped using libata (which makes them /dev/sd* ? No I'm not sure. Is there a way to infer this from within Linux or must I access

Re: system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Bar Dov
Are you sure the SATA disks are configured as SATA in the BIOS (enhanced/AHCI), and not emulated to PATA, then mapped using libata (which makes them /dev/sd* ? Dan On 4/17/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, We have a couple of boxes here which just receive tons of e-mail and do so

Re: system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-17 Thread Arieh Skliarouk
Hi, output of vmstat: # vmstat 5 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 2 13100 10448 232800 33134400 208 1180 4384 8 23 4 66 0 13100 9116 23281

system wait on SATA 7200 10k rpm drive

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, We have a couple of boxes here which just receive tons of e-mail and do some file processing on it before moving it off for other servers to process. The boxes have two AMD Athlon X2 3200 64 bit processors on them, with 1Gb RAM and a SATA drive which identifies as Seagate ST3400620AS (produc