James Pifer wrote: >I have a USB disk connected to a Poweredge server. The USB Disk is a Mad >Dog MegaVault with a 160GB drive installed. It's all working fine, but >the external LED on the unit is not working. > >I'm currently running a script (yum-pull) for setting up a yum mirror >and it sits for long periods of time seemingly doing nothing. I started >the script this morning at 6:20 for my FC4 yum mirror and it's now 8:50 >and it's still running. A "top" shows very little activity from a CPU >perspective. > >The guy who wrote the script says there's probably tons of disk activity >going on. The script does continue to run because it will eventually >finish. One might think the slowness is because it's a USB drive, but I >can copy large amounts of data and do permission changes on files, at >the same time this script is running, and it all happens quickly. > >Guess I'm just trying to verify whether there really is a lot of disk >activity going on. I tried looking at ksysguard, but wasn't very >successful at seeing what I wanted. > >I'm not sure I want to use yum-pull if it take 3 hours to run per >mirror. Right now I'm mirroring FC4, but I also want to do Centos 4.0 >and 4.2, and maybe even Suse 9.2. > >Are there any other disk activity monitors I should try? > >Thanks, >James > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > If you're looking for a real-time graphical display, try GKrellm configured to show your USB drive's partition(s). This works fine in KDE as well as Gnome, BTW.