Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:07:38 +0100 (MET) | From | Ronald Wahl <> | Subject | Re: strange disk activity |
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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > > > Low priority swaping (ie kswapd), anyone agree ? > > > > kswapd runs with a nicevalue of -12 which means a high priority. But this > > can't be the reason for the disk activity - there is nothing to swap. > > cat /proc/meminfo doesn't change. > > I've measured the time between the disk accesses again and it is exact 10 > > seconds. > > > Yep it does run with a huge nice value, but (I think) between mem usage > x, and y it swaps on a low priority, less than y and it swaps hard. > > Have you looked in your logs ? There could be something being written > there every 10 secs (sounds ominous).
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
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