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SubjectRe: strange disk activity
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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