[ale] Long lag for command line

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

If you think it's an issue of that type, I would run a level 4 spinrite 
analysis or a badblocks non destructive read write analysis on it.  
Sometimes, even if no bad blocks are reported, forcing the controller to 
read and write each sector can improve things.

I don't know if it's relevant, but defragging the drive might help.

Ron


On 6/29/2013 3:15 PM, Doug Hall wrote:
> I've experienced this kind of slowness from a dying hard drive - only 
> it might have been the controllers and not the disk itself. I remember 
> running Diskwarrior (Mac hard disk utility program), and even though 
> it took a LONG, LONG time to run, it came back with only insignificant 
> errors. (Improper file count in the index, etc.) Once I replaced the 
> drive, everything was back to normal. Do you have a spare drive you 
> could throw in there?
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alex Carver 
> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 6/29/2013 04:41, Mike Harrison wrote:
>
>         On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Alex Carver wrote:
>
>             didn't crop up until recently (maybe four or five days
>             ago) but the
>             machine had been running continuously without issue for
>             about 50 days
>             (would have
>
>
>         I'd start with dmesg - I've seen weird HD or other I/O errors
>         cause
>         similar issues and they showed up in 'dmesg'
>
>         And stupid things: If this system is remote, run MTR/traceroute
>         to it, it might not be a machine issue, but a connection to it
>         issue.
>
>
>     Didn't see anything in dmesg, either, though I'll dig through
>     again just in case I missed a one-liner.
>
>     "Remote" is a bit of a stretch in this case.  The computer with
>     the ssh terminal is sitting directly above the one having trouble
>     and both are cabled into the same switch.  :)  I just called it
>     "remote" because I'm not using the console or a DE on the troubled
>     machine.
>
>
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