Topic: excess HDD activity

[stocky]

Got my SME6 box loaded up....gigabit drivers in and working.........now the damn HDD light wont stop hammering away even when it is just sitting "doing nothing". Any idea's? What log fiel should i look at to see what is happening?
PS It spat out a msg to the admin that the user (me!) had exceeded their quota of 1024MB....when i checked the quota it had 0.05MB used.......go figure!

HELP!!  

[stocky]

From my nmbd/current logfile.............

2004-11-11 02:57:56.263601500 Netbios nameserver version 2.2.8a started.
2004-11-11 02:57:56.394096500 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
2004-11-11 02:57:57.074295500 standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
2004-11-11 02:58:01.525761500 find_response_record: response packet id 17672 received with no matching record.
2004-11-11 02:58:01.525871500 find_response_record: response packet id 17673 received with no matching record.
2004-11-11 03:05:59.645452500 Netbios nameserver version 2.2.8a started.
2004-11-11 03:05:59.884154500 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
2004-11-11 03:06:01.700038500 standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
2004-11-11 03:06:06.236048500 find_response_record: response packet id 18166 received with no matching record.
2004-11-11 03:06:06.236051500 find_response_record: response packet id 18167 received with no matching record.
2004-11-11 03:11:12.635762500 Netbios nameserver version 2.2.8a started.
2004-11-11 03:11:12.837636500 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1994-2002
2004-11-11 03:11:13.219339500 standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
2004-11-11 03:11:17.693311500 find_response_record: response packet id 18435 received with no matching record.
2004-11-11 03:11:17.693314500 find_response_record: response packet id 18436 received with no matching record.




and so on..................


any help to anyone?

[stocky]

Right...........gettign nowhere fast.....reloaded the box...same result. Any ideas?  

[smeghead]

.. this is a clean load of a stock 6.0.1 I presume??

The only time I have seen this happen is when the system was flooded by spam and virused email and it just ran outta memeory (real and swap).

Run 'top' to see whats happening with the system.

Also try running:

service smtpfront-qmail stop

and see if it helps, if so then your problem is the same.  Load the box up with lotsa RAM (768+) and see if it helps.

Alternatively, you could just limit the # of threads the smtp server responds to concurrently so the RAM use is limited.  See:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22399.0

HTH

[stocky]

Turned out the machine decided that the RAID aray wasnt "clean"................and took 48hrs CONTINOUS to clean it..........250GB drives prob didnt help
       
feeling better now...................

Its not a "slow" machine by any means P4 3.0Ghz HT 1024MB RAM 2 x WD 7200RPM 250GB HDD 8MB Cache