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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list