Re: [cobalt-security] HDD problems

[paul jacobs <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:38 AM 2/20/2003, you wrote:

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> > I put a empty 40 gig seagate in the RAQ4R I have and it tells
> > me it is going to take 3560 min. to rebuild the raid!!.
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> This was discussed on cobalt-users last week, including a reply from
> one of the Sun engineers.  The problem in the latest kernel has been
> found, and a fixed kernel is on its way to QA.  This affects the Qube
> Pro and the RaQ 4r.  Not sure about XTR.

That's great.. I would have know this but sun keeps me out of the cobalt 
users list.


> In the meantime, there's a "hack" to fix the problem.  Execute this at
> the commandline as root, and then add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (so
> that it runs each time the server gets rebooted):
>
> echo 5000 > /proc/sys/dev/md/speed-limit

Thanks, This peeked my processor load and slowed down a few websites I 
checked.. and I am local to the network the box sits on so it's not the 
internet connection :(


> - --
> Bruce Timberlake
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