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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.<br>
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I don't know if it's relevant, but defragging the drive might help.<br>
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Ron<br>
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On 6/29/2013 3:15 PM, Doug Hall wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">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?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alex
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
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didn't crop up until recently (maybe four or five days ago) but the<br>
machine had been running continuously without issue for about 50 days<br>
(would have<br>
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I'd start with dmesg - I've seen weird HD or other I/O errors cause<br>
similar issues and they showed up in 'dmesg'<br>
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And stupid things: If this system is remote, run MTR/traceroute<br>
to it, it might not be a machine issue, but a connection to it issue.<br>
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Didn't see anything in dmesg, either, though I'll dig through again
just in case I missed a one-liner.<br>
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"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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