src crippled, cvs inaccessible.

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:

> >> The net result is we have a load average of ~20 due to all the
> >> processes sitting in disk wait.  If you're using anoncvs, the
> >> connection refused messages are probably due to the high load
> >> average.
> > 
> > Lots and lots of disk wait was a symptom of the RAID having degraded
> > due to a disk failure, the last time...
> > 
> > zw
> 
> 
>   Oops.  Maybe someone had better take a look at the status in whatever
> drive-monitoring utility comes with the RAID array?  It's still going on and
> it has been continuing for over six hours now and that is *unusual* and
> therefore scary.....

We did check the RAID.

The current load is not really unusual, unfortunately.  There is new
hardware in the queue somewhere at Red Hat, but I don't have any more
information on it.

Ian