Topic: excess disk activity

[Mark whittle]

Have installed e-smith server 5.5 on a HP e60 server pentium II 400 with a 8Gb scii drive, the problem is that the disk is constantly being accessed, has anyone had the same problem, Iam thinking it may have something to do with the scii.

[Dan Brown]

What makes you think this is a problem?

[Mark whittle]

I thought disk trashing was not good for the drive, and shouldn't be happening when it is not connected to a network standing by itself, seems strange to me?

[Gary]

I have the same problem - a fairly recent installation with only two active users. I don't have SCSI though - I have two IDE drives in RAID mode. The hard disk light is on constantly despite the server being tasked to do squat?

[PeterRichard]

I have the same problem in that about every 1-2 seconds I can hear a head seek. This wouldn't be a problem except I'm using IBM travelstar laptop drives and there is an issue using these constantly 24/7 (even IBM only recommends about 75-80% duty). There is not enough idle time to allow them to go to sleep.

[ed sharpe archivist for]

i had weird things like this too.... but.. when I put 256 megs of memory into the system it does not seem to swap to disk much!

ed sharpe archivist for smecc
PeterRichard wrote:
>
> I have the same problem in that about every 1-2 seconds I can
> hear a head seek. This wouldn't be a problem except I'm using
> IBM travelstar laptop drives and there is an issue using
> these constantly 24/7 (even IBM only recommends about 75-80%
> duty). There is not enough idle time to allow them to go to
> sleep.

[PeterRichard]

Well I have only 124M usable from 128M (4M for onboard video) and swap "is" showing 1.8M in use. I guess I'll have to try to get another 128M stick and see what happens.

Peter