Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:10:34 +0200 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: Inexplicable disk activity trying to load modules on devfs |
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I just booted into 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 for the first time, and noticed > something very odd: my disk activity light was flashing at about > half-second intervals, very regularly, and I could hear the disk
I have a similar problem with the popular 'dig' utility. Running 'dig 2> /dev/null > /dev/null' suffices to cause disk activity, even when run many times in succession.
As far as stracing can tell (dig is multithreaded), there is no reason for this.
Regards,
bert
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