Brian May <[email protected]>
writes:

> 1. If I boot anything later then 3.12 kernel, I don't get any
> display. As in the monitors display black. [...]  Computer seems to be
> up and running, and responsive to crl+alt+del despite not having a
> display.

So SSH into it and investigate.

You say you're running wheezy with 3.12.
Are you using the bpo kernels?
Those are currently at 3.14.

> 2. There seems to be some weird performance problem. e.g. save a 2 kilobyte
> file in vim, and the computer can completely freeze (all other windows,
> including xterms, stop responding to user input) for, say 30 seconds, while
> it is writing that file. Chromium takes ages to load with several tabs, and
> pages can fail to start properly while it is doing so.

I can't account for this unless your storage is on eMMC or similar.
Have you looked for processes in D state & run iostat?

> This is moving disk + RAID1 + LVM + ext4.

OK so not eMMC.
Are the blocks aligned?
Shouldn't really matter for RAID1 or spinning rust, tho.

Ty T'so had a blog post a while back explaining how to laboriously align
everything, if you care enough to try that (I wouldn't bother unless you
were reinstalling anyway).

> I am currently working on a new theory that the performance problems only
> occur when the computer is cold and first turned on. I think I have seen
> evidence to disprove this, but guess I should run bonnie++ as soon as I
> turn the computer on, just to be sure.

And in break or single mode, so no other shit is running.

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