Hi folks!

I have a Linode Ubuntu server. I have set it up as a website hosting box using this manual, but I have not actually set up any sites yet:

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-serve ... spconfig-2

I am surprised to observe recurrent IPv6 and Disk IO activity on this box that I expected to be idle. Here is a sample screenshot:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B84ZLL ... YTYwazVFUQ

Can someone please help me understand this? I have observed the same picture on another Linode server that actually runs a few websites. Is this expected? If so - what is this activity?

Thanks in advance!

That's 140bit/s peak of ipv6 traffic.

It's just normal background v6 autoconfiguration stuff.

The IPv6 traffic are router advertisements and things of the like. Nothing to be worried about.

Also, your disk I/O is often less than 50 blocks per second. That would be normal to me as well. You could see what's using the disk by running something like iotop. But honestly, I think it'd be more effort than it is worth.

-Tim

Thanks very much for the replies.
Seems like there is no reason to worry.