Just check smart table: smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdX Sometimes disk work very slowly without any visible reason. In this case just replace your disk. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > I have a 1.5TB Western Digital hard disk (WD15EADS-00R6B0) > on my CentOS-5.7 server, which has become incredibly slow > for some operations, eg rsync, BackupPC archive, e2fsck, > although it seems to work fine for ordinary file operations, > and "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" does not report any errors. > > For example, running "e2fsck -p /dev/sdb5" on a 250GB partition > on this disk took over 24 hours to complete, > as it did on another partition. > > I wonder if anyone can offer an explanation, > or suggest a remedy? > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- GPG Key ID: 6EC5EB27