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Title: Excessive hard drive activity
Post by: pwgsc1 on November 12, 2007, 07:07:53 PM

Hi,

I did a yum upgrade about a week ago, did some 219 updates.  Ever sense then I've had excessive hard drive activity, it's constantly running and you can hear the clicking of it's activity for hours on end with no stopping.

- I'm at version 7.2
- I have raid enabled and the status screen says everything is "in a clean state"
- I don't have virus scanning enabled for files or e-mail.
- I run PS and all I get is Bash and PS processes running

Any ideas why this is happening or what I can check to see why?

Thanks,

Craig

Title: Re: Excessive hard drive activity
Post by: cactus on November 12, 2007, 07:09:42 PM

Quote from: pwgsc1 on November 12, 2007, 07:07:53 PM

Hi,

I did a yum upgrade about a week ago, did some 219 updates.  Ever sense then I've had excessive hard drive activity, it's constantly running and you can hear the clicking of it's activity for hours on end with no stopping.

- I'm at version 7.2
- I have raid enabled and the status screen says everything is "in a clean state"
- I don't have virus scanning enabled for files or e-mail.
- I run PS and all I get is Bash and PS processes running

Any ideas why this is happening or what I can check to see why?

Thanks,

Craig

Did you do the signal-event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot commands or the reconfigure per server-manager after the upgrade? Do you have any contribs installed on the system?

Title: Re: Excessive hard drive activity
Post by: pwgsc1 on November 12, 2007, 08:47:03 PM

Hi,

Yes I did the necessary  reboot processes.  No errors on reconfigure or boot up.

I have a few contribs  added:  dungog joomla, ddclient, awstats, crontab manager, gallery2, phpmyadmin, sme7admin, dungog rsync.

I turned on awstats to make sure it's not my website all of a sudden getting a pounding. I don't know why it would, kinda boring if your not me.  :-)

Thanks

Title: Re: Excessive hard drive activity
Post by: thomasch on November 13, 2007, 03:59:54 AM

ps only show you what is running on your login prompt
do a " ps ax  |more " instead

SME includes standard tool to track down what is running, how much Memory and CPU cycle the process take..
try :

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top
if you want a nicer user interface use :

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htop
this nice tool can show you what is running what %CPU and what %MEM  (and some information that I don't understand)
you may suspect on one or two process with high CPU and Memory usage