Can hdd bottleneck dude server?

[conjurer]

In time my dude server began to work a bit slower. When adding device it freezes for few seconds, or cant read and cache some svg icons for some time.
I have about 10 maps 300+ devices, ant 2-6 probes for each device. There are about 150 mikrotik devices, and some data from them is logged, likw ping, http time, link speed and so on.
Hardware is Pentium D 2Ghz, 2Gb ram 160Gb seagate.
So in winbox or shell i can see about 6000 sector writes per second (973 701 522 since reboot 28days ago). I think this hdd can’t keep up with dude.

Do anyone had, o has same problems? Do anyone knows, how many writes per second modern sata hdd’s are capable?

I will add about as much devices in half year, so i want to be sure, if it will work ok.

[lebowski]

I’d throw ram at it first then go to toms hardware and check out the disk benchmarks if ram doesn’t solve it…

[conjurer]

this is my graphs:



Also it makes about 500~ connections, most are mikrotik connections, and http, ssh connections. I have lovered time_wait timeout because i had about 3k connections with time_wait state.