Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Willie Wong wrote:
> > Is there anyway to tell if the
> > harddrive is failing in real time?
> 
> emerge smartmontools
> 
> man smartd

Also look at:

emerge -s bonnie


 app-benchmarks/bonnie
      Latest version available: 2.0.6
      Size of downloaded files: 6 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/
      Description: Performance Test of Filesystem I/O using standard C 
librarycalls.
      License:     bonnie

*  app-benchmarks/bonnie++
      Latest version available: 1.93c
      Size of downloaded files: 106 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
      Description: Hard drive bottleneck testing benchmark suite.
      License:     GPL-2


Various tools and analysis should converge on the source of the problem, which
may be complex.  You might want to check your ram too. Memory mis-matches can
cause I/O bottlenecks too.

HD + RAM + Cache + File System ===> I/O

James






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