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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:
> > Hi
> >
> > Since 1.3.7x (I suppose since 1.3.77) I notice a access to my scsi-disk
> > with the root filesystem every 8-10 seconds. There are no active
> > processes. There are no unusual syslog entries.
> >
> > Any suggestions what the reason can be?
> >
> 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.

ron

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