[Savannah-hackers] Re: subversions hda disk (continued)

[Mathieu Roy]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> said:

>       Hi,
> 
>       /dev/hda really behaves like if it was corrupted. It looks
> like bad blocks suddenly showed and I/O are extremely slow on some
> disk areas.  But this is only a guess since there are no driver error
> messages in the logs. I'm rebooting and it is now cleaning /tmp (not
> sure how long it will take, when I rebooted 5 days ago it took around
> 15 minutes). During fsck it fixed an impressive number of errors, most
> of them related to /tmp/*cvs* temporary trees. I'll move /dev/hda
> partitions contents to /dev/hdc (there is a spare partition large
> enough for this purpose).
> 
>       I guess it's time to get another machine. This one serviced
> two years with no trouble at all. It would probably not be wise to
> wait for more hardware failures before moving to another machine.

As I said in private to Loic, if a new machine is bought, it would be
good to get SCSI HD instead of IDE, and to get more RAM (normally a
webserver shouldnt swap at all).

Regards,
 

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Mathieu Roy
 
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