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Hello, I read some threads (some of them not very recent, and perhaps not up to date) and I have not found a clear answer to these: Is it advisable to have /tmp set up with data=writeback option in general? Is it again true if we are considering a laptop? Do I have also to consider writecache of disks in this case or are they totally non related? How to check/set the state of writecache for disks in general and in particular for laptops and what is the better configuration when we plan to use ext3 as the filesystem? Thanks in advance. Bye, Gianluca

...nknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: * signifies the current active mode So from recommendation on website I did this to match MaxMultiSect: hdparm -m16 /dev/hda then tried this to turn MultSect off: hdparm -m0 /dev/hda Still getting error. The Supermicro MBD-X7SBL-LN1-O motherboard has bas...

...MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 * signifies the current active mode Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks! --Chris

...e, BuffSize=1821kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=66055248 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive Supports : Reserved : Reserved : Reserved : ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 1 : Reserved : Reserved : Reserved : ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 ATA-6 ----------------- The initial problem I encountered with the drive is the I was able to see only aprox 30GB out of the available 60GB in ...

Hello Folks, We have 2 (identical hardware) busy public 2U rack servers, both have several hundred users & peak email (for example) deliveries at 300/5min during the daytime. Both servers run RAID1 over 2 EIDE disk drives. One server is fine - it never has problems - it is running RH7.3 and CPU loads are normal. The other server has constant disk activity & kjournald at CPU load of

...ize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=20044080 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:160,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 /sbin/lspci= 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo...

How do I check if the proper sata drivers are being loaded? If they are not what can I do other then rebuilding the kernel? Thank you in advance, Randy _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

Hi everyone, I've been running Redhat 7.2 (new install) for about 2 weeks now without any problems, but today I was not so lucky. My system hung while I was trying to configure the kernel-source RPM using 'xconfig'. After rebooting the system, it seems that my whole ext3 file system is corrupted. I get the message: Mounting root filesystem EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3):couldn't mount

Hi all. We just put a relative large server in operation (for our measures ;-) ), a 4x Dual Core / Intel with 16GB Ram and a 3ware 9550SX SATA-RAID with 4 drives. Operating system for the Dom0 is an up-to-date gentoo linux. Everything runs really fine, there are 4 Domu''s running, 1x gentoo and 2x debian and 1x Windows Server 2003. DomU''s are running blazing fast in normal

I also experienced this problem and the first thing that really helped out was changing the timing in the span line of the zaptel.conf. Change it to look like this (see below) and see if it helps out. I got the error much less after doing this and eventually got rid of the error completely by removing my raid drives, installing an IDE drive, enabling DMA mode on the Hard Drive, enabling APCI in

...axMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78140160 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 3: 2 3 4 5 BTW I set udma2 (hdparm -X udma2 /dev/hda) otherwise there was no star. No difference in performance (below). ---------------------------------------------------------------- hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cach...

Hello, With reference to the problems listed below. I too am having incredibly long start up times. I''m talking minutes here (around 5 minutes). My configuration is not complex I don''t think. We are you using ldap too and the settings are bellow. The network is up as I''m restarting shorewall whilst the machine is running. Any suggestions? Is there no way to

When I copy a file(13Megs) from /home/ to /tmp/, sync takes almost 2 minutes. When I copy the same file to /usr/local/, sync returns almost right away. Both filesystems are ext3 and are on the same harddrive. When sync is running, the harddrive light stays on but I don't hear it doing anything. dmesg doesn't show any errors either. Below is the `time` output for each command. If you

...blocks should be promoted and demoted. + This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises + reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise + of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased + adaptability in the face of changing workloads. config DM_WRITECACHE tristate "Writecache target" @@ -343,9 +343,9 @@ config DM_ERA select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA select DM_BIO_PRISON ---help--- - dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to - over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using -...

...blocks should be promoted and demoted. + This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises + reads over writes. This SMQ policy (vs MQ) offers the promise + of less memory utilization, improved performance and increased + adaptability in the face of changing workloads. config DM_WRITECACHE tristate "Writecache target" @@ -343,9 +343,9 @@ config DM_ERA select DM_PERSISTENT_DATA select DM_BIO_PRISON ---help--- - dm-era tracks which parts of a block device are written to - over time. Useful for maintaining cache coherency when using -...