Hallo all,
I have a very strange behaviour on my RAID-1 array with Kernel 6.6.13.
Kernel 6.1.76 and earlier do not show this symptoms, but I *think* I
have seen it on any 6.5 Kernel (I am not sure)
the array contains my /home, and consists of an internal NVME drive, a
internal SATA device, and an external USB drive.
even if the array is (neraly) idle, I see very heave I/O on the
external USB drive, which makes the system more or less unusable.
artus:~ # iostat -p sda,sdb,nvme0n1,md0,md1 -y 5
Linux 6.6.13+bpo-amd64 (artus) 2024-03-17 _x86_64_ (12 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0,12 0,00 0,15 0,45 0,00 99,28
Device tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_dscd/s kB_read kB_wrtn kB_dscd
md0 2,20 0,00 8,80 0,00 0 44 0
md1 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
nvme0n1 8,00 0,00 39,10 0,00 0 195 0
nvme0n1p1 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
nvme0n1p2 4,40 0,00 29,60 0,00 0 148 0
nvme0n1p3 3,60 0,00 9,50 0,00 0 47 0
nvme0n1p4 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
sda 3,80 0,00 9,50 0,00 0 47 0
sda1 3,80 0,00 9,50 0,00 0 47 0
sda2 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
sdb 54,20 0,00 26223,10 0,00 0 131115 0
sdb1 54,20 0,00 26223,10 0,00 0 131115 0
sdb2 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0,20 0,00 0,12 0,37 0,00 99,32
Device tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_dscd/s kB_read kB_wrtn kB_dscd
md0 0,20 0,00 0,80 0,00 0 4 0
md1 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
nvme0n1 1,60 0,00 3,70 0,00 0 18 0
nvme0n1p1 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
nvme0n1p2 0,40 0,00 2,40 0,00 0 12 0
nvme0n1p3 1,20 0,00 1,30 0,00 0 6 0
nvme0n1p4 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
sda 1,20 0,00 1,30 0,00 0 6 0
sda1 1,20 0,00 1,30 0,00 0 6 0
sda2 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
sdb 39,00 0,00 19661,50 0,00 0 98307 0
sdb1 39,00 0,00 19661,50 0,00 0 98307 0
sdb2 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0
I am sure that there is no rebuild or check at the moment... and I have
no idea WTF is going on here... sometimes the write rate goes up to
>100 MB/sec
when I check with iotop, i can see similar high write rates, but no
process or thread responsible for it.
Some more information:
artus:~ # uname -a
Linux artus 6.6.13+bpo-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1 (2024-02-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux
artus:~ # mdadm --version
mdadm - v4.2 - 2021-12-30 - Debian 4.2-5
artus:~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md1 : active raid1 sda2[2](W) sdb2[4]
1919826944 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
bitmap: 0/15 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
md0 : active raid1 sda1[5](W) nvme0n1p3[3] sdb1[4](W)
33520640 blocks super 1.2 [3/3] [UUU]
bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
unused devices: <none>
note: I see similar behaviour on /dev/md1 which is a quite large device
containing virtual machines
artus:~ # smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/sda
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.6.13+bpo-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 870 EVO 2TB
Serial Number: S6P4NF0W307661D
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 f43329aaa
Firmware Version: SVT02B6Q
User Capacity: 2.000.398.934.016 bytes [2,00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Mar 17 11:06:23 2024 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SCT Error Recovery Control:
Read: Disabled
Write: Disabled
artus:~ # smartctl -d sat,auto -H -i -l scterc /dev/sdb
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.6.13+bpo-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: Samsung
Product: PSSD T7
Revision: 0
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 2.000.398.934.016 bytes [2,00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Logical Unit id: 0x5000000000000001
Serial number: K611523T0SNDT5S
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sun Mar 17 11:13:59 2024 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
artus:~ # smartctl -H -i -l scterc /dev/nvme0n1
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.6.13+bpo-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number: TS512GMTE400S
Serial Number: I216681028
Firmware Version: V0804S3
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x1d79
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x7c3548
Controller ID: 1
NVMe Version: 1.3
Number of Namespaces: 1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 512.110.190.592 [512 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 7c3548 52255b6444
Local Time is: Sun Mar 17 11:08:56 2024 CET
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
artus:~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x1
Array UUID : f6189e48:e5dadfbd:8a7a9239:c6074410
Name : any:home
Creation Time : Fri Nov 15 07:07:21 2019
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 3
Avail Dev Size : 67041280 sectors (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Array Size : 33520640 KiB (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Data Offset : 67584 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
Unused Space : before=67504 sectors, after=0 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 9023e389:b12c69be:abd226c2:fceba209
Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock
Flags : write-mostly
Update Time : Sun Mar 17 11:15:22 2024
Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 16 sectors
Checksum : 7958e05b - correct
Events : 864895
Device Role : Active device 2
Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)
artus:~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x1
Array UUID : f6189e48:e5dadfbd:8a7a9239:c6074410
Name : any:home
Creation Time : Fri Nov 15 07:07:21 2019
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 3
Avail Dev Size : 67041280 sectors (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Array Size : 33520640 KiB (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Data Offset : 67584 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
Unused Space : before=67504 sectors, after=0 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : a5a29aca:ebfaa7b1:c484660d:bb455305
Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock
Flags : write-mostly
Update Time : Sun Mar 17 11:15:34 2024
Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 16 sectors
Checksum : f43f398c - correct
Events : 864895
Device Role : Active device 1
Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)
artus:~ # mdadm --examine /dev/nvme0n1p3
/dev/nvme0n1p3:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x1
Array UUID : f6189e48:e5dadfbd:8a7a9239:c6074410
Name : any:home
Creation Time : Fri Nov 15 07:07:21 2019
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 3
Avail Dev Size : 67041280 sectors (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Array Size : 33520640 KiB (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Data Offset : 67584 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
Unused Space : before=67504 sectors, after=0 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : dae5b41c:8eaceaae:d65a1486:819723c1
Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock
Update Time : Sun Mar 17 11:16:38 2024
Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 16 sectors
Checksum : 781a567b - correct
Events : 864895
Device Role : Active device 0
Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)
artus:~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Fri Nov 15 07:07:21 2019
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 33520640 (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Used Dev Size : 33520640 (31.97 GiB 34.33 GB)
Raid Devices : 3
Total Devices : 3
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Sun Mar 17 11:19:35 2024
State : clean
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Consistency Policy : bitmap
Name : any:home
UUID : f6189e48:e5dadfbd:8a7a9239:c6074410
Events : 864895
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
3 259 3 0 active sync /dev/nvme0n1p3
4 8 17 1 active sync writemostly /dev/sdb1
5 8 1 2 active sync writemostly /dev/sda1
Any hints?
If you need more information, please let me know.
sunny greetings from Austria, Michael
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