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Re: Slow writes to disk

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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):
>>
>>this is basically going to be the equivalent of smartctl -H,
>
>As the tools are proprietary, figuring out what they actually do would 
>be difficult.  I must presume they are at least as good as smartctl.

They read the smart data which everyone has standardized on. The only 
real reason to use the proprietary tool is if they'll only honor the 
warranty with the proprietary tool. Since consumer drives have close to 
no warranty these days, it's a moot point. (If there is an actual 
warranty then jump through whatever hoops are needed. The smart log via 
smartctl should show you whether there's a reason to do so.)

>>no need to try to figure out how to run windows.
[...]
>OS-based tools can provide additional features and optimizations for 
>that specific OS.

Sure. But since this is a debian mailing list it seems silly to worry 
about windows. There are other lists for that.

>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.

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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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