[Help] Disk activity / High Swap usage

[TheOpsMgr]

Hi all,

Recently (ie last few months or so) my F4-423 TOS version 5.1.95-00372 has been having periods of very noisy disk activity that then seem to go on for hours. A reboot will "fix" the problem

Looking at the Glances control panel it doesn't really show anything "wrong" other than the Swap showing as red at 93.4%.

I'm not really a Linux person, so can anyone give me any insight as to what's going on here?

[Gremlin]

You could consider an update to Tos5.1.145 which is latest tos5.1 version and/or subsequently to Tos6.

[TheOpsMgr]

Hmmmm, interresting that doing an update check on the device doesn't notify me about .145.

I'll do it manually then.

If I go to 6 is that still a disk wipe?

[crisisacting]

Hmmmm, interesting that doing an update check on the device doesn't notify me about .145.

Your system partition is likely 2 GB, which is a limitation to upgrading & likely the reason that it's not being notified about a newer 5.1.× version.

If I go to TOS 6.×, is that still a disk wipe?

Yes.

You'll need to build a or update your initboot USB drive to TOS 6.× & as it requires an 8 GB system partition, either a fresh drive to install it onto or if you'll be reusing the drives that you currently have in it, you'll need to secure erase the drives on another PC to use them for a fresh installation (if you don't have an active backup, backup the data prior onto another medium to later restore it).