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Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> writes: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:40:47AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I finally turned on Smartd on one of my servers (don't ask me why it >> wasn't on earlier), and I've been receiving messages like the following >> every night. Is this bad? Is this a sign that one (or both) of my >> disks is (are) dying and need to be replaced? >> >> Could this be related to why when the machine is under heavy load that >> ksoftirqd/1 starts spinning and taking up lots of CPU? This is my >> mythtv backend server, so it can have heavy disk I/O when recording >> multiple HDTV streams simultaneously (upwards of 40Mbps at times). >> > > The raw_read_error rate is impossible to understand without a > guide from the manufacturer. What you should be looking for is a > sudden upswing in uncorrectable errors. > > SMART isn't very smart; they left far too many meanings up to > the drive maker's whims. What about the ECC errors? > -dsr- -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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