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.
When running iotop, there is nothing blaring out at me.
(sample output)
1722 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.10 % auditd
3 be/7 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]
1724 be/2 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.10 % 0.00 % audispd
10 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kblockd/0]
103 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [khubd]
2163 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % sshd
6265 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % sshd: root at pts/1
169 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 2.82 % -bash
1724 be/2 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % audispd
3 be/7 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]
7 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kthread]
2163 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % sshd
6265 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % sshd: root at pts
169 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 2.92 % -bash
1722 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.78 % auditd
2022 be/4 haldaemo 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.68 % hald
1724 be/2 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.78 % 0.00 % audispd
3 be/7 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]
2342 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % mingetty tty1
And in nmon, the damn thing looks like it is doing nothing:
?nmon?14g??????[H for help]???Hostname=home?????????Refresh= 2secs
???15:41.15?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
? Disk I/O ??/proc/diskstats????mostly in KB/s?????Warning:contains
duplicates?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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?DiskName Busy Read WriteKB|0 |25 |50 |75 100|
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?hda 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?hda1 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?hda2 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?sda 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?sda1 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?sdb 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?sdb1 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?dm-0 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?dm-1 0% 0.0 0.0|>
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?Totals Read-MB/s=0.0 Writes-MB/s=0.0 Transfers/sec=0.0
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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,..
Any tips?
D
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, dnk <d.k.emaillists at gmail.com> 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.What is the spec of the machine? RAM, CPU, HDD Any particular purpose?
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> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120322/dd9452a6/attachment-0004.sig>
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-0004.sig>