Re: [CentOS] Blocking external usb storage

2008-06-04 Thread Kevin Faulkner
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 23 May 2008 14:16:45 whoami i wrote: This is my first mail to this mailing list.I want to block external usb storage completly on my server running on centos 5 having confidiential data. 1. unplug any usb storage 2. rmmod ehci_hcd 3. add a line in /etc/modp

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Faulkner
> Where do I get iostat / iotop? Starting sendmail back up puts me in the high 1's to low 2's My next course of action would be to start sendmail in debug level 0.1 and check some logs. Find out exactly sendmail is trying to do, maybe lsof to see if it is getting stuck on something. I am pr

Re: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Faulkner
Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up your hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can also use vmstat and iostat in this situation. Jason Pyeron wrote: I have a server holding a 2.5-4.0 load level consistently, where should I start debugging it? top -