I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC.
I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard Partitions on XFS.
The drive is spinning, nonstop.
How can I monitor if there is actually disk i/o to warrant this constant spinning.
So noatime for all partitions work with XFS? I did some browsing and the claim is XFS uses realtime which is better? than noatime?
Perhaps it is just occasional writes to messages (at least 1 a minute) that determines to keep on spinning.
But it is annoying.
On Sunday 10 November 2019, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
How can I monitor if there is actually disk i/o to warrant this constant spinning.
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 17:12, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC.
I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard Partitions on XFS.
The drive is spinning, nonstop.
I would check the NANO to see if its firmware has any settings or updates which cover this. Then check if the drive has firmware updates needed. Motherboard and drive firmware fixes have been the things I have found to fix most of the problems for drive 'not powering down' problems. I think the last one I remember on IRC was a drive set came up in a mode saying 'I am in fast access mode' or something and so the motherboard kept it spinning up all the time to make sure it could write quickly.
How can I monitor if there is actually disk i/o to warrant this constant spinning.
So noatime for all partitions work with XFS? I did some browsing and the claim is XFS uses realtime which is better? than noatime?
Perhaps it is just occasional writes to messages (at least 1 a minute) that determines to keep on spinning.
But it is annoying.
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Am 11.11.19 um 14:28 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 17:12, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC.
I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard Partitions on XFS.
The drive is spinning, nonstop.
I would check the NANO to see if its firmware has any settings or updates which cover this. Then check if the drive has firmware updates needed. Motherboard and drive firmware fixes have been the things I have found to fix most of the problems for drive 'not powering down' problems. I think the last one I remember on IRC was a drive set came up in a mode saying 'I am in fast access mode' or something and so the motherboard kept it spinning up all the time to make sure it could write quickly.
Maybe
$ hdparm -S
helps? Take a look into
$ man hdparm
-- Leon
On 11/11/19 10:46 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
Am 11.11.19 um 14:28 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 17:12, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC.
I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard Partitions on XFS.
The drive is spinning, nonstop.
I would check the NANO to see if its firmware has any settings or updates which cover this. Then check if the drive has firmware updates needed. Motherboard and drive firmware fixes have been the things I have found to fix most of the problems for drive 'not powering down' problems. I think the last one I remember on IRC was a drive set came up in a mode saying 'I am in fast access mode' or something and so the motherboard kept it spinning up all the time to make sure it could write quickly.
Maybe
$ hdparm -S
helps? Take a look into
$ man hdparm
It looks like -S 1
sets standby at 5 sec idle. I kind of doubt this will matter, but I am trying it.
after
hdparm -S 1
The drive is making a lot less sound.
I will monitor it. Also have to see if this is permanent or I have to put it in a startup cron task.
Thanks
On 11/11/19 3:55 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 11/11/19 10:46 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
Am 11.11.19 um 14:28 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 17:12, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC.
I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard Partitions on XFS.
The drive is spinning, nonstop.
I would check the NANO to see if its firmware has any settings or updates which cover this. Then check if the drive has firmware updates needed. Motherboard and drive firmware fixes have been the things I have found to fix most of the problems for drive 'not powering down' problems. I think the last one I remember on IRC was a drive set came up in a mode saying 'I am in fast access mode' or something and so the motherboard kept it spinning up all the time to make sure it could write quickly.
Maybe
$ hdparm -S
helps? Take a look into
$ man hdparm
It looks like -S 1
sets standby at 5 sec idle. I kind of doubt this will matter, but I am trying it.
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