James Pifer wrote:
>I have a USB disk connected to a Poweredge server. The USB Disk is a Mad
>Dog MegaVault with a 160GB drive installed. It's all working fine, but
>the external LED on the unit is not working.
>
>I'm currently running a script (yum-pull) for setting up a yum mirror
>and it sits for long periods of time seemingly doing nothing. I started
>the script this morning at 6:20 for my FC4 yum mirror and it's now 8:50
>and it's still running. A "top" shows very little activity from a CPU
>perspective.
>
>The guy who wrote the script says there's probably tons of disk activity
>going on. The script does continue to run because it will eventually
>finish. One might think the slowness is because it's a USB drive, but I
>can copy large amounts of data and do permission changes on files, at
>the same time this script is running, and it all happens quickly.
>
>Guess I'm just trying to verify whether there really is a lot of disk
>activity going on. I tried looking at ksysguard, but wasn't very
>successful at seeing what I wanted.
>
>I'm not sure I want to use yum-pull if it take 3 hours to run per
>mirror. Right now I'm mirroring FC4, but I also want to do Centos 4.0
>and 4.2, and maybe even Suse 9.2.
>
>Are there any other disk activity monitors I should try?
>
>Thanks,
>James
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If you're looking for a real-time graphical display, try GKrellm
configured to show your USB drive's partition(s). This works fine in KDE
as well as Gnome, BTW.
