On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Robin Bowes wrote: > What's the best way to do get all six drives working as hard as possible? I always run 'bonnie' on each partition (sometimes 2 to a partition) when soak-testing a new server. Try to leave it running for as long as possible. (ie. days) That seems to get the disk heads moving (start the bonnies off at 1-2 minute interfals, but they desynchronise over time anyway, so some end up reading, some writing, and some seeking) and I suspect head movement is whats going to cause a disk drive to comsume the most current after startup. If I have a handy PC next to it, then I'll also run some scripted network FTPs (via wget) of 1GB binary files copying to /dev/null on the recipient side. I certinaly see the motherboard temperature rise when I do this (lm-sensors is your friend, but can be a PITA to get going) Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
