At Thu, 6 May 2010 17:37:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Pyeron
> > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:32
> > Subject: Re: Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Benjamin Franz
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 17:12
> > > Subject: Re: Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> > >
> > > On 05/06/2010 11:16 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > > > It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes in total)
> > > >
> > > > It is a recent Seagate sata HD.
> > > >
> > > > MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB
>
> Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
Your motherboard is running in IDE emulation mode and exposing the SATA
drives as IDE drives. Many motherboards have this mode to make things
'easier' for certain older O/Ss.
>
> > > >
> > > What do you get from running 'iostat -kx 5' (be sure to wait
> > > until the second report) while the formatting is running?
> > >
> >
> > This is running faster than during the install ( I have done
> > a yum update now at
> > 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5)
> >
> > Middle (inode tables: 130/235) of format on 23G logical
> > volume [bit erratic?]:
> >
> > avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> > 0.26 0.00 99.74 0.00 0.00 0.00
> >
> > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await svctm %util
>
> SATA hard disk:
> > hdb 0.00 1852.62 0.00 46.86 0.00 7493.19 319.82
> 2.73 58.34 20.44 95.76
> > hdb1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > hdb2 0.00 1852.62 0.00 46.86 0.00 7493.19 319.82
> 2.73 58.34 20.44 95.76
> > dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.05 0.00 4.19 8.00
> 0.03 27.25 27.00 2.83
> > dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>
> USB Thumb drive
> > sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 1898.43 0.00 7593.72 8.00
> 201.75 106.27 0.50 95.76
> >
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