On Jul 2, 2014, at 1:49 AM, George R Goffe <grgo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a Fedora 19 system with several large 2-4TB drives attached via 
> USB-SATA docking stations.
> 
> I'm seeing a problem whereby a specific filesystem that hasn't been accessed 
> for some time and is REALLY slow to respond to initial requests. ls -alt for 
> example takes a substantial bit of time to respond at first but then response 
> is acceptable after that.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out what's happening and why and what I can do about it. 
> It's like the buffers are empty and they need to be filled. Are there kernel 
> tunable parameters that can be changed to avoid this problem?

yum install iotop
iotop -o -d 3

Now access the drive in a manner that reproduces the delay behavior and see 
what processes are causing io on the drive. What are the mount options for the 
file system?

Chris Murphy
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