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Hello everyone,
I have a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop with the latest Arch Linux configured and running well.
I noticed a strange problem which seems to happen sporadically. Sometimes, I'll happen quite a few times in a row and in another time it'll appear every 5 minutes.
I hear a strange noise which _seems_ to be coming from my hard drive. It clicks, then there's a spinning sound, then re-clicks again. Meanwhile Xorg will get a cpu useage spike to arround 10-20% each core (assuming the computer was at idle before arround 1-2%)
I tried various commands using hdparm, mostly hdparm -b 255, -S 0 and -A 0. No luck there.
Anyone have an idea?
Edit: Actually, there seems to be Python instance getting more cpu and mem usage when it happens (process name: Python).
I'm even more confused.
Last edited by Pierre-Alexandre (2009-03-17 00:11:25)
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Sounds like it could be a drive read/write issue. Is anything showing up in any log files ?
I'd run the diag utility from whatever manufacturer made your drive - dlgdiag for Western Digital for example. I think many recent ones are available on Ultimate Boot CD - http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ or better, directly from the manufacturers' downloads.
I've seen more than one HD start with symptoms like that, and get worse...
As for the python thing, it sounds like something that uses python is hitting an area of disk that is causing the problems.
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It would also be a very good time to make sure that everything important is backed up if you don't do it regularly.
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It's very random... I just used my computer for 2 hours without it happening.
So it's probably the hd dieing. Argh!
Well, thanks!
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Here is the copypasta of the output of the smartctl -a command...
pierre-alexandre ~ $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.3
Device Model: ST9120822AS
Serial Number: 5LZ68X90
Firmware Version: 3.CDD
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Wed Mar 18 10:17:13 2009 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 426) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0001) SCT Status supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 118 092 006 Pre-fail Always - 171251326
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 085 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 2042
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 078 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 8716154724
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4776
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 020 Old_age Always - 2060
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 064 049 045 Old_age Always - 36 (Lifetime Min/Max 26/39)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1055
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 037 037 000 Old_age Always - 126409
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 036 051 000 Old_age Always - 36 (0 10 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 073 060 000 Old_age Always - 132126145
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 4408 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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