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Title: excess disk activity
Post by: Mark whittle on December 09, 2002, 06:31:50 AM

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.

Title: Re: excess disk activity
Post by: Dan Brown on December 09, 2002, 07:09:04 AM

What makes you think this is a problem?

Title: Re: excess disk activity
Post by: Mark whittle on December 09, 2002, 08:50:43 AM

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?

Title: Re: excess disk activity
Post by: Gary on December 09, 2002, 03:20:27 PM

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?

Title: Re: excess disk activity
Post by: PeterRichard on December 10, 2002, 02:28:04 AM

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.

Title: Re: excess disk activity
Post by: ed sharpe archivist for on December 17, 2002, 04:00:45 AM

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.

Title: Re: excess disk activity
Post by: PeterRichard on December 17, 2002, 06:16:37 AM

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