Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:30:58 +0100 (MET) | | From | Ronald Wahl <> | | Subject | Re: strange disk activity |
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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Stephen Tweedie wrote:
> Hi, > > In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960327011208.199D-100000@gytha.demon.co.uk>, > Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk> writes: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote: > >> Since 1.3.7x (I suppose since 1.3.77) I notice a access to my scsi-disk > >> with the root filesystem every 8-10 seconds. There are no active > >> processes. There are no unusual syslog entries. > >> > >> Any suggestions what the reason can be? > >> > > Low priority swaping (ie kswapd), anyone agree ? > > Probably not. kswapd, if it is doing low-priority swapping, activates > 4 times a second, not once every few seconds. However, swapping in > general could be the cause, if there are background daemons waking up > for a quick look at the world every so often.
Which deamons will do this (look at the top output I mailed recently)? Also there is no need to swap because there is enough free memory.
> Also bear in mind that even reading a file will cause a write in a few > seconds time, as the last-access timestamp gets updated on disk.
There is nothing running every 10 seconds.
ron
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