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Re: Slow writes to disk

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On 11/3/18 1:35 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 12:20:34PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 11/3/18 4:58 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 07:27:41PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>>>> 3.  Download and run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility (Windows
>>>> may be required):
...> Sure. But since this is a debian mailing list it seems silly to worry
> about windows. There are other lists for that.

I was warning the OP that the tool for his drive may require Windows.


>> A good benchmark will stress the drive, possibly causing messages to 
>> dmesg and/or /var/log/* that would be helpful for trouble shooting the 
>> "slow writes to disk".
> 
> It seems unnecessary for someone to install and run tangentally related 
> programs because "possibly" they might generate messages. The odds of 
> that are low enough for it to just be busy work.

When trouble shooting, it is useful to have a means to elicit the 
failure mode on demand.  dbench is especially helpful for intermittent 
failures, as it does a lot of reads and writes per second.


David

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Slow writes to disk Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-11-02 13:40 +0100
  Re: Slow writes to disk Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-02 13:50 +0100
    Re: Slow writes to disk Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-11-02 20:00 +0100
  Re: Slow writes to disk Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-11-02 15:20 +0100
    Re: Slow writes to disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-11-02 16:30 +0100
  Re: Slow writes to disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-11-03 03:40 +0100
    Re: Slow writes to disk Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-03 13:00 +0100
      Re: Slow writes to disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-11-03 20:30 +0100
        Re: Slow writes to disk Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-03 21:40 +0100
          Re: Slow writes to disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-11-04 03:00 +0100
            Re: Slow writes to disk Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-04 13:30 +0100
              Re: Slow writes to disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-11-04 23:10 +0100
  Re: Slow writes to disk songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-11-03 18:30 +0100

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