On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:30 -0500, Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Yes, it is > 90% full currently. I believe I still have the problem when more is free, though. -- Justin Patrin -- [email protected] mailing list
