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Re: kernel.org rsync processes

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2005, 15:48 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> 
>>Did the kernel.org rsync processes get stuck again?
> 
> 
> It may still see the effect of a disk failure.. According to hpa as of 
> Monday evening:
> 
> 
>>zeus2.kernel.org is coming back online after a severe disk failure.
>>It's pretty out of date (in particular, it's missed the daily --checksum
>>syncs), and I think it's still rebuilding its RAID, so it's running slow.
> 
> 
> So it looks like kernel.org just had a few difficult days (fist the move
> of master, then some problems at the outer fringes).
>

Yep. I'm actually a bit puzzled over just how long it seems to be taking to rebuild the RAID on zeus2, and the level of slowdown it seems to carry with it, especially not since we have turned off user traffic to that host completely.

	-hpa
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  3. Randal L. SchwartzSep 21, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinSep 21, 2005

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