Debian 6 on HP proliant (2 CPU) with raid (2*1.5T RAID1 + 2*2T RAID1 joined RAID0 to make 3.5T) running mainly nfs & imapd (plus samba for windows share & local www for previewing web pages); with local ubuntu desktop client mounting $HOME, laptops accessing imap & odd files (e.g. videos) via nfs/smb; boxes connected 100baseT or wifi via home router/switch
uname -a
Linux prole 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 11 12:29:30 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
Setup has been working for months but prone to intermittently going very slow (user experience on desktop mounting $HOME from server, or laptop playing videos) and now consistently so bad I've had to delve into it to try to find what's wrong(!)
Server seems OK at low load e.g. (laptop) client (with $HOME on local disk) connecting to server's imapd and nfs mounting RAID to access 1 file: top shows load ~ 0.1 or less, 0 wait
but when (desktop) client mounts $HOME and starts user KDE session (all accessing server) then top shows e.g.
top - 13:41:17 up 3:43, 3 users, load average: 9.29, 9.55, 8.27
Tasks: 158 total, 1 running, 157 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.4%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 49.0%id, 49.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 903856k total, 851784k used, 52072k free, 171152k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 476896k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3935 root 20 0 2456 1088 784 R 2 0.1 0:00.02 top
1 root 20 0 2028 680 584 S 0 0.1 0:01.14 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.12 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.42 events/0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.26 events/1
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr
15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pm
16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 sync_supers
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 bdi-default
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/0
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.08 kblockd/1
22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug
25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.19 kondemand/0
29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.93 kondemand/1
30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd
31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.18 kswapd0
32 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd
33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
34 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
35 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto/0
36 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto/1
203 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
204 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
205 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
206 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1
207 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 ata_aux
208 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 scsi_eh_0
dmesg suggests there's a disk problem:
.............. (previous episode)
[13276.966004] raid1:md0: read error corrected (8 sectors at 489900360 on sdc7)
[13276.966043] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489898312 to another mirror
[13279.569186] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[13279.569211] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[13279.569230] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[13279.569257] ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[13279.569262] res 41/40:00:05:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[13279.569306] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[13279.569321] ata4.00: error: { UNC }
[13279.575362] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[13279.575388] ata4: EH complete
[13283.169224] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[13283.169246] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[13283.169263] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[13283.169289] ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[13283.169294] res 41/40:00:07:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[13283.169331] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[13283.169345] ata4.00: error: { UNC }
[13283.176071] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[13283.176104] ata4: EH complete
[13286.224814] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[13286.224837] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[13286.224853] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[13286.224879] ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[13286.224884] res 41/40:00:06:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[13286.224922] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[13286.224935] ata4.00: error: { UNC }
[13286.231277] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[13286.231303] ata4: EH complete
[13288.802623] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[13288.802646] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[13288.802662] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[13288.802688] ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[13288.802693] res 41/40:00:05:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[13288.802731] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[13288.802745] ata4.00: error: { UNC }
[13288.808901] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[13288.808927] ata4: EH complete
[13291.380430] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[13291.380453] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[13291.380470] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[13291.380496] ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[13291.380501] res 41/40:00:05:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[13291.380577] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[13291.380594] ata4.00: error: { UNC }
[13291.386517] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[13291.386543] ata4: EH complete
[13294.347147] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[13294.347169] ata4.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[13294.347186] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[13294.347211] ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[13294.347217] res 41/40:00:06:6a:05/00:00:23:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[13294.347254] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[13294.347268] ata4.00: error: { UNC }
[13294.353556] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[13294.353583] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled sense code
[13294.353590] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[13294.353599] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
[13294.353610] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[13294.353616] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[13294.353635] 23 05 6a 06
[13294.353644] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[13294.353657] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 23 05 6a 00 00 00 08 00
[13294.353675] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 587557382
[13294.353726] ata4: EH complete
[13294.366953] raid1:md0: read error corrected (8 sectors at 489900544 on sdc7)
[13294.366992] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489898496 to another mirror
and they're happening quite frequently, which I guess is liable to account for the performance problem(?)
# dmesg | grep mirror
[12433.561822] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900464 to another mirror
[12449.428933] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489900504 to another mirror
[12464.807016] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489900512 to another mirror
[12480.196222] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489900520 to another mirror
[12495.585413] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489900528 to another mirror
[12510.974424] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489900536 to another mirror
[12526.374933] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489900544 to another mirror
[12542.619938] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900608 to another mirror
[12559.431328] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900616 to another mirror
[12576.553866] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900624 to another mirror
[12592.065265] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900632 to another mirror
[12607.621121] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900640 to another mirror
[12623.165856] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900648 to another mirror
[12638.699474] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900656 to another mirror
[12655.610881] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900664 to another mirror
[12672.255617] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900672 to another mirror
[12672.288746] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900680 to another mirror
[12672.332376] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900688 to another mirror
[12672.362935] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900696 to another mirror
[12674.201177] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900704 to another mirror
[12698.045050] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900712 to another mirror
[12698.089309] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900720 to another mirror
[12698.111999] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900728 to another mirror
[12698.134006] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900736 to another mirror
[12719.034376] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900744 to another mirror
[12734.545775] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900752 to another mirror
[12734.590014] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900760 to another mirror
[12734.624050] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900768 to another mirror
[12734.647308] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900776 to another mirror
[12734.664657] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900784 to another mirror
[12734.710642] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900792 to another mirror
[12734.721919] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900800 to another mirror
[12734.744732] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900808 to another mirror
[12734.779330] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489900816 to another mirror
[12782.604564] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 1242934216 to another mirror
[12798.264153] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 1242935080 to another mirror
[13245.832193] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489898296 to another mirror
[13261.376929] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489898304 to another mirror
[13276.966043] raid1: sdb7: redirecting sector 489898312 to another mirror
[13294.366992] raid1: sdc7: redirecting sector 489898496 to another mirror
although the arrays are still running on all disks - they haven't given up on any yet:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid0]
md10 : active raid0 md0[0] md1[1]
3368770048 blocks super 1.2 512k chunks
md1 : active raid1 sde2[2] sdd2[1]
1464087824 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sdb7[0] sdc7[2]
1904684920 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
So I think I have some idea what the problem is but I am not a linux sysadmin expert by the remotest stretch of the imagination and would really appreciate some clue checking here with my diagnosis and what do I need to do:
obviously I need to source another drive for sdc. (I'm guessing I
could buy a larger drive if the price is right: I'm thinking that
one day I'll need to grow the size of the array and that would be
one less drive to replace with a larger one)
then use mdadm to fail out the existing sdc, remove it and fit the new drive
fdisk the new drive with the same size partition for the array as the old one had
use mdadm to add the new drive into the array
that sound OK?
