On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 23:16 -0500, Lelsie Rhorer wrote: > The issue is the entire array will occasionally pause completely for about > 40 seconds when a file is created. I had symptoms like this once. It turned out to be a defective disk. The disk would never return a read or write error but just intermittently took a really long time to respond. I found it by running atop. All the other drives would be running at low utilization and this one drive would be at 100% when the symptoms occurred (which in atop gets colored red so it jumps out at you) -- 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
