~ I think there may be a number of things going on here. Let me first answer Neal's questions: ~ > Have you tried "fdisk -l /dev/sda"? ~ Well, there are no disk attached whatsoever to my box. I am using a bear live CD (knoppix 7.0.2) right off the DVD drive ~ > How about: > tail -f /var/log/messages # In a separate window ~ file seems to be empty ~ $ date; time sudo ls -l /KNOPPIX/var/log/messages Fri Sep 28 21:55:38 UTC 2012 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 May 13 02:17 /KNOPPIX/var/log/messages
real 0m0.012s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.007s ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Without having any drive attached I booted into init 2 using: ~ "boot: knoppix no3d init 2" ~ and fdisk -l was returning with timings bellow 0.010s. Then I suspended the box (again no hard drives attached whatsoever) and after awakening the box "fdisk -l" started giving me the "38+ seconds" responses ~ So it may not be a hard drive dying issue after all. Am I the only debian user suspending his box to whom that happens? ~ lbrtchx ~ $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:08 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:10 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:11 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s sys 0m0.003s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:12 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ sudo mount /media/sda1 $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:45 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.017s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:49 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.015s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:50 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.013s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:14:51 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.014s $ sudo umount /media/sda1 $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:15:02 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.025s user 0m0.003s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:15:03 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.022s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:15:04 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.024s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:15:04 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes 39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 8064 15638527 7815232 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) real 0m0.023s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:17:47 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:17:51 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:17:54 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:17:57 UTC 2012 real 0m0.011s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:19:58 UTC 2012 real 0m0.011s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:20:00 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:20:01 UTC 2012 real 0m0.009s ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ after suspending box for about 10 seconds ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:21:09 UTC 2012 real 0m38.089s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:22:23 UTC 2012 real 0m38.093s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:23:12 UTC 2012 real 0m38.095s $ date; time fdisk -l Fri Sep 28 21:23:58 UTC 2012 real 0m38.101s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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