Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:53:02 -0500 | From | "Carey M. Drake" <> | Subject | Re: major problem with linux-2.4.0test10 |
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Why not just remove the sa lines from /etc/crontab?
C.
Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, J.D. Hollis wrote: > > > I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason, > > shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no > > apparent reason, and suddenly about 150MB of my 256MB RAM is filled up with > > something gtop labels 'Other.' whatever's filling my memory isn't attached > > to any process. the one time I managed to get gtop open while the hard > > drive was seeking, I noticed that kflushd was using about 98% of my > > processor (an Athlon 900MHz). I'm running Redhat 7.0 (although I have no > > idea whether that makes a difference). > > It's probably a program called 'sa' that anacron starts up right after boot > (on RH 7.0). It's a system accounting program that starts up and scans the > entire drive looking for stuff, which fills up cache in RAM. > > I generally disable all anacron stuff and remove /etc/cron.??* and the > daily/weekly/monthly entries in /etc/crontab, then I run > '/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart'. That oughta fix it, but you might want to > look into the cron scripts individually and selectively remove the lines you > don't want. :-) > > -- > Byron Stanoszek Ph: (330) 644-3059 > Systems Programmer Fax: (330) 644-8110 > Commercial Timesharing Inc. Email: bstanoszek@comtime.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- C.
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When in doubt, poke it with a stick
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