Unresponsive machine during disk activity - RedHat 9

2003-07-22 Thread Mike Blatchley
Since switching from RedHat 8 to RedHat 9, my machine becomes very sluggish if one process is doing a lot of disk access. Has anything changed such that IDE disk access takes higher priority now? I expect an application relying on disk access to perform worse, but this sucks the life out of other

RE: Disk activity

2002-09-19 Thread Furnish, Trever G
sage- > From: Linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:41 AM > To: 'Redhat-List (E-mail) > Subject: Disk activity > > > Hi > > Is there a command in RH 7.2 which would show how busy the disk is? > > Many Thanks > > Mike &g

Disk activity

2002-09-19 Thread Linux
Hi Is there a command in RH 7.2 which would show how busy the disk is? Many Thanks Mike -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

disk activity

2001-03-21 Thread lee
hi.. i have redhat 7 with 2.2.16-22 kernel and 128ram with 256 swap for some reason sometimes I get alot of HD activity and i'm not sure what its related to.. only thing i had started was netscape but not sure if the activity was before or after starting it.. this doesn't happen alot but i

RE: disk activity

2001-03-21 Thread KANODIA, ASHOK
Title: RE: disk activity Hi, From where I can get "top"...? Thanks -Ashok -Original Message- From: Mitchell K. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 11:00 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: disk activity Lee, When I see u

RE: disk activity

2001-03-21 Thread Mitchell K. Smith
Lee, When I see unusual disk activity, I just run top. Then I sort by CPU usage (P) and it shows the process that is running. Mostly I have seen this as updatedb running. Mitch Smith -Original Message- From: lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:29 AM To

Re: disk activity

2001-03-21 Thread Mike Burger
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, lee wrote: > this doesn't happen alot but i'd like to know what it is because its > frustrating as it bogs down my poor old PII450..lol > > is it bug in this older kernel that might have been fixed in 2.2.17 or > something ( not going to 2.4.1 till we know its safe ..ha ) C

Re: high performance high disk activity needs

2000-08-10 Thread Jim Mills
[BIG CUT ] > drive set the drives up as RAID5. [BIG CUT} Raid5 is a very good redundant system but not high performance. hi performance with disk drive arrays comes down to number of spindles the best performance is a mirrored stripe set attached to a decent hardware RAID controller. Also drive p

Re: high performance high disk activity needs

2000-08-09 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 03:18 PM 8/9/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > >The boss just told me to find a faster solution to the setup at one of our >branches and I need your help. >We have an Intel 550 with 4 4 gig drives supporting about 80 users. Each >user will have about 100 files open and will be making multiple disk ac

Re: high performance high disk activity needs

2000-08-09 Thread Cokey de Percin
Jim Baxter wrote: > > Hi, > > The boss just told me to find a faster solution to the setup at one of our > branches and I need your help. > We have an Intel 550 with 4 4 gig drives supporting about 80 users. Each > user will have about 100 files open and will be making multiple disk access > eve

Re: high performance high disk activity needs

2000-08-09 Thread Eric Sisler
Jim Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The boss just told me to find a faster solution to the setup at one of our >branches and I need your help. >We have an Intel 550 with 4 4 gig drives supporting about 80 users. Each >user will have about 100 files open and will be making multiple disk access

high performance high disk activity needs

2000-08-09 Thread Jim Baxter
Hi, The boss just told me to find a faster solution to the setup at one of our branches and I need your help. We have an Intel 550 with 4 4 gig drives supporting about 80 users. Each user will have about 100 files open and will be making multiple disk access every second. We now need to double th