On 22.3.2012 05:24, dnk wrote: > 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. > > When running iotop, there is nothing blaring out at me. > Any tips to quiet this thing down? hdparm and smartmontools are your friends maybe. I would trying the following: The disk is ok? S.M.A.R.T long selftest/status is ok? Automatic Acoustic Management feature set? AAM (Actually I really dont know if this would/could help) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_acoustic_management Power Management feature set? play with Power Management Settings of the harddrive. -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120322/81e4f7ab/attachment-0005.sig>