Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Michael Iatrou <m.iatrou@freemail.gr> wrote:
>
>
> When you say that it becomes slow, do you have any comparison figures
> between normal and "slow" operation?
>

well,

saving after editing crontab -e with less than 10 lines takes 5-8
seconds where as it was instantenous earlier.

> Shooting in the dark here:
>
> Do you get any suspicious messages from dmesg?
>

nope :-(

>How much free space do you
> have on the disk and what filesystem?
>

more than 50% of the space is free on all lvms
file system is jfs on all

>Is it a new disk (4k native blocks,
> misaligned partitions)?
>

nope all the stuff was made using the debian installer.

thanks

--Siju