Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-02-20 Thread Guillaume Laurès
Hello all, A bit of update to this issue. Switching the cabling of the most problematic drive with a new one didn't fix the issue. I couldn't yet switch the power supply with a more powerful one. However I temporarily added a pci-e SATA host and another drive, the situation was just as bad

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Hancock
Guillaume Laurès wrote: Le 8 janv. 08 à 01:29, Robert Hancock a écrit : From your report: ata5: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400 ata5: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1 ata5: CPB 1: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x2 ata5: CPB 2: ctl_flags 0x

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-08 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 01/07/2008 03:22 PM, Guillaume Laurès wrote: > However even with CFQ/NOOP I keep getting soft resets, only the sata_nv > SATA ports, when under load. Any thoughs ? Try the adma=0 option for the driver? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-08 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:52:35 +0100, Guillaume Laurès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f02 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata5.00: cmd 60/40:08:8f:eb:67/00:00:03:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data > > 32768 in > > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Laurès wrote: Hello, Dear kernel developers, my dmesg asked me to report this, so here I go ;) Here is what I found in my dmesg: "anticipatory: forced dispatching is broken (nr_sorted=1), please report this". - First, let's talk about the machine: it's quite pushed so maybe the cause is me d

Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?

2008-01-07 Thread Guillaume Laurès
Well, I should have tried to answer my own question earlier... but there is still a problem. A quick reading of Wikipedia later, I can tell the following. First, the anticipatory scheduler seems to be the worse choice when dealing with raid arrays. Now, a better choice in my case could be: -