From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 04:13:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8581065670 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:13:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1E28FC0A for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o0R4D0aq019704 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.14.2/8.13.4/Submit) id o0R4D0f2019703; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:13:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:13:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <201001270413.o0R4D0f2019703@apollo.backplane.com> To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List References: <20100127004905.GF9206@plebeian.afflictions.org> <20100127023805.GB13665@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> Subject: Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:13:01 -0000 Here's what I got from one of my 2TB WD green drives. This one is Firmware 01.00A01. Load_Cycle_Count is 26... seems under control. It gets hit with a lot of activity separated by a lot of time (several minutes to several hours), depending on what is going on. The box is used for filesystem testing. Regardless it seems to stay spun-up all the time, or nearly all the time. Neither the BIOS nor the kernel driver is messing with the SUD control on the Silicon Image board it is connected to (other then just turning it on and leaving it that way). If the drive has an intelligent parking function it doesn't seem to be using it much. I haven't specifically disabled any such function. Device Model: WDC WD20EADS-00R6B0 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY0259672 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Tue Jan 26 19:25:48 2010 PST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ... ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 212 150 021 Pre-fail Always - 6375 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 39 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4252 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 37 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 13 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 26 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 111 000 Old_age Always - 31 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 I have a few of these babies strewn around. The others show about the same stats, e.g. this one is used in a production box. Same drive type, same firmware: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4164 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 43 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 26 ... So on the face of it things seem ok with these drives. Presumably WD is working adjustments into the firmware as time goes on. Hopefully they aren't just masking the count in the SMART page to appease techies :-) These particular WDs (2TB Caviar Green's) are slow drives. 5600 rpm, 100MB/sec. But they are also very quiet in operation and seem to be quite power efficient. -Matt Matthew Dillon