Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:36:05 -0500 (EST) | From | Byron Stanoszek <> | Subject | Re: major problem with linux-2.4.0test10 |
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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. :-)
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