[tlinux-users:07568] Re: New ML7-181 : HardDisk LED is always ON
Werner Schulte <[email protected]>
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Hi, x wrote: >Werner -- > >I guess what comes first would be monitoring of disk-writes/reads. >1.If you happen to have KDE (which I doubt if you have ubuntu) this is >easy: > >ksysguard -> File -> New >Now on the left under Sensor Browser click on: >localhost -> Disk Throughput -> "dev-nr. of your HDD" >Now pull any desired sensor to the right > > Does not work on my machine. I get lots of sensors, but none shows usable output. >2.gkrellm >http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html >can do a similar job > > works >3.sysstat >http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/ >is a useful command-line tool. >Use something like <iostat -dk 2> > > shows, that HD is not accessed always (just normal I would say). I think it is the sata- or raid driver, as the LED goes ON, when loading modules is shown during bootup and switches OFF short before shutdown power off. Thanks for your hints, I feel really better now ... Regards Werner >BTW:Did you check MEM-usage (<free>)? >Just a hypothesis: >A proc gone out of control sometimes uses all available >MEM, which *could* lead to continuous swapping, and therefore to >constant disk-usage. > >HTH&HANXM > >ursus > > >--- Kevin Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:33:01PM +0100, Werner Schulte wrote: >> >> >>>Hello list, >>> >>>I just got a new M70-181 Laptop and installed Ubuntu 5.10 on it. >>>Everything worked smoothly, but I am in doubt, whether the harddisk >>> >>> >>is >> >> >>>always >>>acessed. At leats the harddisk lamp is always ON. >>> >>>Any ideas about that ? Can I check / set the harddisks state ? >>> >>> >>>Kernel : 2.6.12-10 >>>Harddisk : sda : sata drive >>> >>>Thanks in advance >>> >>>Werner Schulte >>> >>> >>Hi Werner, >>some folks like to set 'noatime' in /etc/fstab. This means that there >>will be less HD r/w access which may increase battery and decrease HD >>use. >>Cheers, >>Kev >>-- >>counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! >> `$' $' >> $ $ _ >> ,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$$$$$b $,d$$b >>,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ "' `$ $$' `$ >>$$ $ $$ggggg$ $ $ $ ,$P"" $ $ $ >>`$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $ $ >> `Y$$P'$. `Y$$$$P $$$P"' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$. >> >> > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________ >Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de > > > >