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SubjectRe: strange disk activity
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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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