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Constant disk activity (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am constantly hearing disc activity on my ds218+. In the Activity manager I can see constant read/write on the performance overview. In the task list I can't see anything showing read/write, other than Swap, but that shows up less frequently than i hear the clicking. The RAM usage on the system is also under 50%.

Can anyone help? I am driving myself insane, trying to find the cause. I disabled the usage history in the performance monitor and all docker containers are paused.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would ssh into the machine and run commands like top, lsof and ps to try to figure out what is running and what files are being used.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And iotop in combination with the others

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It might be the built in media apps generating thumbnails.

[–] TragicNotCute 2 points 6 months ago

This was my guess. Maybe Plex also processing removal of intros and credits too.

[–] knil42 1 points 5 months ago

One of the first things I accepted on my DS918+ was, that disks will never be idle. So I packed many services (>20, most docker) on it + a raid1 M2 cache in front of the big raid5 (3x 8TB). access is quite low now and the power to spin the disks 24h per day is not wasted. DS918+ with 16GB M2-cache and its 4core CPU is a perfect thing to consolidate all those one-thing-solutions. I learned much by doing this. I still enjoy!
Next I will install 2 solar panels on balcony to supply some of the "basis power".