[CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

Tue Sep 28 00:05:24 UTC 2010
Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com>

Thanks ROss, I poured through my dmesg logs and all looks well, things
appear fine but i don't think the samsung should be running at
100%...something is not right but it hasn't bit me yet....her are my dmesg
logs...

scsi0 : ahci
scsi1 : ahci
scsi2 : ahci
scsi3 : ahci
scsi4 : ahci
scsi5 : ahci
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe6ffc00 port 0xfe6ffd00 irq 225
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe6ffc00 port 0xfe6ffd80 irq 225
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe6ffc00 port 0xfe6ffe00 irq 225
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe6ffc00 port 0xfe6ffe80 irq 225
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe6ffc00 port 0xfe6fff00 irq 225
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe6ffc00 port 0xfe6fff80 irq 225
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD3200AAJS-00L7A0, 01.03E01, max UDMA/133
ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD103SJ, 1AJ10001, max UDMA/133
ata2.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATA-8: ST31000528AS, CC3E, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD3200AAJS-0  Rev: 01.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
  Vendor: ATA       Model: SAMSUNG HD103SJ   Rev: 1AJ1
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdb: 1953525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000205 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 1953525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000205 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST31000528AS      Rev: CC3E
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdc: 1953525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000205 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdc: 1953525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000205 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
 sdc: sdc1
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.5-ioctl (2007-12-12) initialised:
dm-devel at redhat.com
device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594l


Also, smartctl output...

smartctl -A /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   100   051    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0026   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0023   071   071   025    Pre-fail
Always       -       9011
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       5
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   252   252   010    Pre-fail
Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   252   252   051    Old_age
Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0024   252   252   015    Old_age
Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       64
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   252   252   051    Old_age
Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       5
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   057   053   000    Old_age
Always       -       43 (Lifetime Min/Max 20/47)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x002a   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age
Always       -       0
225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
Always       -       5








On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/27/2010 12:19 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> >> On 09/27/2010 08:15 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
> >>> So I'm in the process of building and testing a raid setup and it
> >>> appeared to take along time to build I came across some settings for
> >>> setting the min amount of time and that helped but it appears that one
> >>> of the disks is struggling  (100 utilization) vs the other one...I was
> >>> wondering if anyone else has seen this and if so, is their a solution
> >>> for it...my 2 disks are 1 Samsung F3 1tb /dev/sdb and 1 Seagate
> >>> 7200.12 1Tb /dev/sdc...smartctl looks good on both....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> What is the output from 'cat /proc/mdstat'?
> >
> > Also, head position/motion is the usual limiting factor with disk
> > performance.  Do you have other disk activity that will keep yanking the
> > head on the active drive away from the track currently needed for the
> > rebuild?
>
> Also, also, if any of the drives are operating in PIO mode (Legacy Mode)
> then rebuild times will be horrific, as well as performance afterward. Make
> sure all drives are in SATA/AHCI mode.
>
> -Ross
>
> PS look at svc_tm in iostat and make sure all drives are performing
> correctly. Maybe a bad cable or flakey port expander...
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