'Disk Sleep' Problem
Petrus de Calguarium
kwhiskerz at gmail.com
Sun Apr 25 17:45:07 UTC 2010
Tom Lane wrote:
> It sounds to me like your disk drive is on the verge of
failure:
> it's taking a long time to process some read or write
operations,
> probably because it is retrying many times before
succeeding.
> You should look in the kernel log for evidence of
problems, and/or
> check the drive's SMART status if it supports that.
>
> Back up your data immediately, and then see about
replacing the drive.
Ok, I will check into that. However, I have 3 drives, so
they can't all be failing at once. I do backups daily, and
sometimes in between, too, if there are a lot of changes.
For the time being, what I did was to disable the KDE Power
Management (Power Devil), and the system has been running
smoothly for a couple of hours without the slightest hint of
a problem. I tend to think it is the power-saving feature
that is not working correctly.
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