I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up simple programs takes some waiting while the HD is accessed. During large operations (say another box rsyncing to this one) it's much much slower thanit should be. I've checked top and my CPU is 90+% waiting for IO. This is certainly not right. There is plenty of unused RAM, no active swapping is being done AFAIK.
I formatted my main partition with ReiserFS 3.6. It's worked fine up until now (and my new Gentoo box seems wiht with ReiserFS). This feels like a disk fragmentation issue, although I have no way to back that up. Does anyone have any tips for me? -- Justin Patrin -- [email protected] mailing list
