Disk activity
-
My pfsense 1.2 release shows 3% disk activity and makes a small amount of disk activity noise. Annoying.
I had earlier installed snort and few packages but have long deleted them…
Please see attached picture.
Is there a way to stop this or reduce this down? I also noticed left over config data for snort et al from past I wonder if that may be the reason. Perhaps I should delete the left over clutter about packages that I dont have installed nay more...
Any suggestion to bring disk activity down will be helpful.
Thanks much.
Anil Garg
-
It writes logfiles to the hdd for example. A little bit of diskactivity is normal.
-
At a hardware level you have a number of choices.
Switching to 2.5" drives (I'm running a Microdrive and even when it's busy it's barely audible).
Switching to a lower noise 3.5" drive (such as the new WD "Green" 5400 RPM drives)
Making use of one of the many noise damping enclosures on the market (http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/harddrivesolutions)You could even combine the above, switch from a 3.5" drive to a 2.5" drive inside an enclosure.
-
Btw, it's 3% disk USAGE not activity which means there is plenty of space left on your hdd ;)
-
Thanks. I must have been blind to not see that. I suppose I was reading what I was looking for instead of what facts were.
Sorry.
AnilBtw, it's 3% disk USAGE not activity which means there is plenty of space left on your hdd ;)
