Messages in this thread | | | From | (Jon Tombs) | Subject | Re: strange disk activity | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 1996 19:01:46 +0100 (MET) |
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Ronald Wahl said: > > On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote: > > > There is absolutely nothing and I log every little message > > > (*.* in syslog.conf). The machine runs 24 hours and at night it is > > > completely idle (only imapcopy runs every 15min and get mail from the > > > mailserver) but every 10 second I hear a very short disk access (a "click"). > > > > > > ron > > > > > Hmm, time to turn up the debug level on the scsi me thinks. There has > > been some changes to the block code (plugs ?), but I don't know much more. > > Bryn > > Somebody recently mailed that he has this problem also which IDE drives.
I don't see it with IDE drives, probably it is a badly configured getty, or some other program that calls syslog every 10s.
strace -p every program on the system, and I'm sure you will find one process running a 10 second timer.
-- Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
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