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SubjectRe: strange disk activity
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Jon Tombs wrote:

> 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.

I dont think so because with the problems didn't happen with 1.2.13. But
I will do an strace to my processes.

ron

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