[PLUG] Sluggish response

[Dick Steffens]

On 6/14/23 07:43, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 01:41 Ted Mittelstaedt<tedm at portlandia-it.com>  wrote:
>
>> If it is a magnetic media drive that is older the drive could be suffering
>> end stage sector failure where the bad sector table is filled up.  I've
>> seen it many times and it always makes the drive get very slow
>>
>> Ted.
>>
> Bad sectors should be evident in Smart tools. It might be good idea to
> check it to prove/dis-proof disk issues.
>
> -T

> rsteff at ENU-1:~$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdb
> smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-150-generic] (local 
> build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, 
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

I've run a few other smartctl options. I don't really know what I should 
specifically be looking for. One of the results said

> Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
>                     was never started.
>                     Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
> Self-test execution status:      (   0)    The previous self-test 
> routine completed
>                     without error or no self-test has ever
>                     been run.

Is there something I should be running?

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Regards,

Dick Steffens