Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:13:06 +0100 | From | Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <> | Subject | Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info) |
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On Sunday, 26 October 2003, at 13:55:05 +0100, Stef van der Made wrote:
> The system configuration is as following. > Try first to isolate the kind of disk activity happening: is it writes, reads, a mix of them ?. Start some monitoring program like "vmstat", "sar" or even "xosview" or "gkrellm" to see the kind of disk access pattern happens when your box does things of its own :-)
Also, to put swap out of the equation you could disable it and see if the problem happens again, etc.
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