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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