I was having huge WA on my dedicated server ( upto 90 - 100 % ) most of the time.
So, i thought my Server HDD may be have IO issues, i am advised to run smartd that would tell me if there were any errors on the drive, as per my server provider.
Can someone advice on how to view results from smartd?
When i run smartd on SSH, i see no result..
i checked my /var/log/messages in server today, then i have seen this problem :
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smartd[4650]: Device: /dev/hda, 80 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
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Jul 22 19:16:11 XXXXXXX smartd[1768]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jul 22 19:16:11 XXXXXXX smartd[1768]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Jul 22 19:16:11 XXXXXXX smartd[1768]: Device: /dev/hda, 80 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Jul 22 19:16:11 XXXXXXX smartd[1768]: Sending warning via mail to root ...
Jul 22 19:16:11 XXXXXXX avahi-daemon[1723]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on XXXXXXX " (/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
Jul 22 19:16:12 XXXXXXX smartd[1768]: Warning via mail to root: successful
Jul 22 19:16:12 XXXXXXX smartd[1788]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=1788.
Jul 22 19:16:14 XXXXXXX init: no more processes left in this runlevel
Jul 22 19:32:37 XXXXXXX xinetd[1350]: START: smtp pid=2250 from=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Jul 22 19:32:41 XXXXXXX xinetd[1350]: EXIT: smtp status=0 pid=2250 duration=4(sec)
Can you guys post your smartd.conf here? I want to see which lines are generally a good idea to add.
View 12 Replies View RelatedHow do you download and install smartd?
I have Centos 5, and can't figure out how to install it.
I've tried the follwing and they don't work:
Debian Linux:
# apt-get install smartmontools
Red hat/Fedora Linux:
# rpm –ivh kernel-utils
OR
# up2date kernel-utils
OR if you are using Fedora Linux
# yum kernel-utils
FreeBSD:
# pkg_add -r -v smartmontools