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
smartctrl -Hc /dev/sda is says my hard disk is about to fail.
Andy
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Andrig T. Miller <andrig.t.miller(a)gmail.com
wrote:
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)?
Andy
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>wrote:
> Media error is a flag raised directly by the drive. The kernel can't
> invent it. Your drive reported an error, with data ready, the error was
> uncorrectable.
>
> The smart data from the drive will provide further information on why the
> drive logged an error and the nature of the error.
>
> Alan
>