So, I should have know better. Alan, you were correct. While I don't have the same performance problem under the older kernel, the error messages started showing up, and when I ran<br><br>smartctrl -Hc /dev/sda is says my hard disk is about to fail.<br>
<br>Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Andrig T. Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrig.t.miller@gmail.com">andrig.t.miller@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So why doesn't this happen when I boot the older kernel, and the performance of my system is back to normal, and there is no wait time (was near 100% before)?<br><br>Andy<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Alan Cox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" target="_blank">alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Media error is a flag raised directly by the drive. The kernel can't<br>
invent it. Your drive reported an error, with data ready, the error was<br>
uncorrectable.<br>
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The smart data from the drive will provide further information on why the<br>
drive logged an error and the nature of the error.<br>
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Alan<br>
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