22 Mar
2012
22 Mar
'12
11:46 a.m.
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 21:24 -0700, dnk wrote:
Hi there, I have an old server (home use now), and i just did a fresh install of 5.8 on it. But the disk is constantly noisy. And in nmon, the damn thing looks like it is doing nothing: Any tips to quiet this thing down? The server is very low use. I read a few people suggest converting to ext 2, but I'm not so sure about htat,..
(a) if you are using MD is it perhaps doing a rebuild/repair? (b) "dstat" is also a nice tool (c) find out the source of any I/O http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/04/blockdump-logging.html