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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Nearly Random, Uncorrelated Server Load Average Spikes Post 303044031 by Neo on Wednesday 12th of February 2020 11:53:56 PM
Old 02-13-2020
Update:

Have checked the health of the disks and all seems fine, for example (one of many checks):

Code:
ubuntu#  smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-33-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

 

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GSmartControl(1)						   User Commands						  GSmartControl(1)

NAME
GSmartControl - Hard disk drive health inspection tool SYNOPSIS
gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS] gsmartcontrol-root [<desktop> [OPTIONS]] DESCRIPTION
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self- Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to deter- mine its health, as well as run various tests on it. This manual page documents briefly the gsmartcontrol and gsmartcontrol-root commands. gsmartcontrol-root command launches gsmartcontrol with administrative privileges. The desktop argument specifies which desktop is currently running, for automatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other. OPTIONS
Help Options: -?, --help Show help options --help-all Show all help options --help-gtk Show GTK+ options --help-debug Show logging options Application Options: -l, --no-locale Disable locale -V, --version Display version information --no-scan Don't scan devices on startup --no-hide-tabs Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging. --add-virtual Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive --add-device Add this device to device list. Useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only. --display=DISPLAY X display to use -v, --verbose Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5 -q, --quiet Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0 -b, --verbosity-level Set verbosity level [0-5] COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri 'at' gmail.com> AUTHOR
This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project. gsmartcontrol GSmartControl(1)
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