OK. That is interesting. I am assuming tps is transfers per sec? I would have to get a stop watch, but it seems to go a bit of time, and then a write. Is there something that would accumulate this and give me a summary over some period of time? Of course it better NOT be doing its own IOs... On 11/10/19 6:03 PM, shimi wrote: > iostat 1 > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 00:11 Robert Moskowitz, <rgm at htt-consult.com > <mailto:rgm at 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. > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >