suspencted high load ( disk error? )

[tincboy]

I've a new server with few vms on it, But while I want to create a new VM with pre-created raw images it's load rises to 15 or even more,
I've used dmesg but there's no error in it's output,
It's the out put of "smartctl -a /dev/sda" , Is my disk safe?
Any help would be much appreciated.

smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST1000DM003-9YN162
Serial Number: Z1D0AD5J
Firmware Version: CC47
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Thu Feb 16 19:30:36 2012 IRST
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: (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.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 575) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
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.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3085) 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 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 121180352
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 7
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 078 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 62861687
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 366
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 7
183 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 070 064 045 Old_age Always - 30 (Lifetime Min/Max 22/33)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 677
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 030 040 000 Old_age Always - 30 (0 22 0 0)
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
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 263101106618700
241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1226207558906
242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2505808328530

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


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.

 

[sumsum]

Hello

I'm not sure, but if the following values grow , you might have an issue with the disk in general
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 121180352
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 078 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 62861687

cheers
tom

 

[tincboy]

Yes, they are increased from yesterday,
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 145987920
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 078 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 70683084

Do you think it maybe caused by issue in SATA cable?

 

[sumsum]

I maybe a broken SATA cable can cause this or maybe you need to replace the Harddrive sooner or later. I would contact your vendor and ask for warranty replacement - if you have still warranty on that drive.

 

[daveo]

Hi tincboy,

I wonder if you're having the same (or similar) problem with Seagate drives that I and at least one other person have had. Your symptoms seem to indicate this, but they're not manifesting exactly the same.

I can post an external link to a site with details, or you can search the forum to find folk with a similar issue.

Dave

 

[tincboy]

Hi tincboy,

I wonder if you're having the same (or similar) problem with Seagate drives that I and at least one other person have had. Your symptoms seem to indicate this, but they're not manifesting exactly the same.

I can post an external link to a site with details, or you can search the forum to find folk with a similar issue.

Dave

Would you please give me the link you've mentioned?

 

[daveo]

Would you please give me the link you've mentioned?

This was the exact issue I had:

http://paul.sullivan.za.org/kernel-disables-sata-drive-under-heavy-load-action-0x6-frozen/

Oddly enough (and 100% unrelated) I have just had another ST500DM002-1BD142 in different hardware and country diagnosed as a problem drive in a raid5 array. I'm no longer impartial (;

The problem doesn't always manifest as a complete failure, but each manifestation that I've seen is further evidence that commands to certain Seagate drives take a long time to complete (so perhaps iowait goes up in your case). And in every case once the drive is replaced with an equivalent Hitachi, Western Digital or Samsung all is fine.

I hope this helps you.

D