On 09:39 Mon 28 Feb , Justin Patrin wrote: > 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?
What does "df -h" say? If you hard disk is 90% full or better, it will be dog slow. Bill Roberts -- [email protected] mailing list
