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For some days ago my amahi server started to access HD all the time, I hear the disks and see the HD's light on all the time.
Any suggestions?

per our conversation in the channel, things look relative normal, as far as system logs is concerned (/var/log/messages and dmesg).

the squeezebox server does take a lof ot memory and rescans periodically.
if you have a lot of music, maybe that is taking some CPU.

run:
and also
(yum install iotop may be required)

to see what's up in real time.

are you downloading torrents? are you downloading from newsgroups?
both of them would warrant disk activity. If you have a minimum amount of memory the disk activity might be due to excessive swapping

I would advise installing "atop"

great tool... and can gather statistics as well (with bundled atopsar)

You can add the noatime parameter to your /etc/fstab file. This goes after the defaults option (ie defaults,noatime).

I use the noatime parameter on some of my Linux notebooks, particularly if the have SSDs.

You can learn about noatime via 'man fstab'.

***WARNING DO NOT MISSPELL ANY CHANGES to /etc/fstab'. There is a command to test this out first, I don't have it in front of me. An error in fstab can result in a non-bootable system.

Thanks all for the advice. I manage to fix the problem. it was an error with some symlinks and squeezebox scanning it all the time.