Topic: Weird disk activity...

[tor]

Hi,

I have just installed the latest version  of the SME server.  Just server / dedicated gateway with a couple of test users.

However I se that there is constantly some harddrive activity.  Random seeks are done at least each second.  At first I thought it was some background filesystem checking, but now it has persisted for 36 hours.  Is this normal?  Beleow there is a copy of the current processes.  Thanks for any hint / info.

rgds

Tor

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:04 init [7]
    2 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
    3 ?        SW     0:00 [kapmd]
    4 ?        SWN    0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    5 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
    6 ?        SW     0:00 [kscand]
    7 ?        SW     0:00 [bdflush]
    8 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]
    9 ?        SW<    0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
   13 ?        SW     0:26 [kjournald]
  104 ?        SW     0:00 [khubd]
  317 ?        SW     0:00 [kjournald]
  447 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
  448 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
  449 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/svscan /service
  480 ?        S      0:00 supervise cvm-unix-local
  481 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  482 ?        S      0:00 supervise qmail
  483 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  484 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/cvm-unix-local /var/lib/cvm/cvm-unix-local.s
  485 ?        S      0:00 supervise smtpfront-qmail
  486 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  487 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/cvm
  488 ?        S      0:00 supervise dnscache
  489 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  490 ?        S      0:00 supervise imap
  491 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  492 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/qmail
  493 ?        S      0:03 supervise dhcpcd
  494 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  495 ?        S      0:00 supervise dhcpd
  496 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  497 ?        S      0:00 supervise pppoe
  498 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  499 ?        S      0:00 supervise nmbd
  500 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  501 ?        S      0:00 supervise smbd
  502 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  503 ?        S      0:00 supervise tinydns
  504 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  505 ?        S      0:00 supervise popd
  506 ?        S      0:00 supervise log
  507 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/dnscache
  508 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/imap
  509 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/smtpfront
  510 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/dhcpcd
  511 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/dhcpd
  512 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/pppoe
  513 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/nmbd
  514 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/tinydns
  515 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/smbd
  516 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s5000000 /var/log/popd
  533 ?        S      0:23 syslogd -m 0
  538 ?        S      0:00 klogd -c 1 -2
  698 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/oidentd -m -f -u nobody -g nobody
 1244 ?        SW     0:00 [eth0]
 1333 ?        SW     0:00 [eth1]
 1434 ?        S      0:00 crond
 1526 ?        S      0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
 1747 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/dnscache
 2008 ?        S      0:00 tcpserver -d -H -R -v -X -c 20 -x imap.tcprules.cdb 0
 2126 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qma
 2344 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/tinydns
 2643 ?        S      0:00 lpd Waiting  
 2740 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap
 2744 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap
 2745 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap
 2823 ?        S      0:00 qmail-send
 2825 ?        S      0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
 2826 ?        S      0:00 qmail-rspawn
 2827 ?        S      0:00 qmail-clean
 3261 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3264 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3265 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3266 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3267 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3268 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3269 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3270 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3271 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3272 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3273 ?        S      0:00 httpd
 3536 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -U -R -x /etc/tcprules/tc
 3796 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
 3954 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd-admin -f /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.
 3972 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd-admin -f /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.
 3979 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.
 4068 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --bas
 4134 ?        S      0:00 squid -D
 4139 ?        S      0:38 (squid) -D
 4330 ?        S      0:00 atalkd -f /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf
 4336 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --bas
 4337 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --bas
 4341 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -F -S
 4342 ?        S      0:00 (unlinkd)
 4346 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --bas
 4379 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -F -S
 4643 ?        S      0:00 login -- root    
 8959 ?        S      0:00 papd -f /etc/atalk/papd.conf
 8965 ?        S      0:00 afpd -c 20 -n odin -f /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default
15876 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd-admin -f /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.
15884 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd-admin -f /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.
15885 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd-admin -f /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.
 5244 tty1     S      0:00 -bash
19060 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh ./run
19065 ?        S      0:00 fghack dhcpcd -dCR eth1
19066 ?        Z      0:00 [dhcpcd <defunct>]
19067 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd.exe /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.
19068 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /sbin/e-smith/signal-event ip-change
19069 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/logger -i -t e-smith
19246 ?        R      0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/S80ppt
19247 tty1     R      0:00 ps ax

[RayG]

Look at your messages log and see if you have a bunch of 'deny log' entries. You can reduce what's logged to reduce the hard drive activity.

[chris burnat]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=21446.0

and/or:

http://www.e-smith.org/faq.php3#6q8

will tell you how to turn packet filtering.

[tor]

Look at your messages log and see if you have a bunch of 'deny log' entries. You can reduce what's logged to reduce the hard drive activity.

Hi,

Thanks for the tip.  Apparently the is a 'problem' with the DHCP.  I have an ADSL modem with DCHP server which the SME's 'internet' NIC is connected to.  

I thought that normally SME would negociate an IP and release it rarely, but this appears to happen about every second.  A portion of the mesage log is copied below.

How can I disable this continous DHCP negociating?

Thanks for any hint

rgds

Tor

Jun 28 11:22:07 odin dhcpcd[29836]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.0.34
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin dhcpcd[29836]: broadcastAddr option is missing in DHCP server respons
e. Assuming 192.168.0.255
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin dhcpcd[29836]: DHCP_ACK received from P650r-33 (192.168.0.1)
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin dhcpcd[29836]: dhcpConfig: ioctl SIOCADDRT: File exists
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin dhcpcd[29836]: infinite IP address lease time. Exiting
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin e-smith[29839]: Processing event: ip-change 192.168.0.34
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S15set-external-ip
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin e-smith[29839]: S15set-external-ip=action|Event|ip-change|Action|S15s
et-external-ip|Start|1088414527 319475|End|1088414527 503833|Elapsed|0.184358
Jun 28 11:22:07 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S16adjust-masq
Jun 28 11:22:08 odin e-smith[29839]: S16adjust-masq=action|Event|ip-change|Action|S16adjus
t-masq|Start|1088414527 503963|End|1088414528 194482|Elapsed|0.690519
Jun 28 11:22:08 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S47proftpd-conf
Jun 28 11:22:08 odin e-smith[29839]: S47proftpd-conf=action|Event|ip-change|Action|S47prof
tpd-conf|Start|1088414528 194610|End|1088414528 579966|Elapsed|0.385356
Jun 28 11:22:08 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S50conf-security
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: S50conf-security=action|Event|ip-change|Action|S50con
f-security|Start|1088414528 580087|End|1088414529 83294|Elapsed|0.503207
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S55email-conf
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: S55email-conf=action|Event|ip-change|Action|S55email-
conf|Start|1088414529 83415|End|1088414529 570660|Elapsed|0.487245
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S55mailfront-conf-control
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: S55mailfront-conf-control=action|Event|ip-change|Acti
on|S55mailfront-conf-control|Start|1088414529 570786|End|1088414529 719801|Elapsed|0.14901
5
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/ip-change/
S60email-sighup
Jun 28 11:22:09 odin e-smith[29839]: S60email-sighup=action|Event|ip-change|Action|S60emai
l-sighup|Start|1088414529 719930|End|1088414529 729917|Elapsed|0.009987
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