From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Basil Chupin Subject: Re: What does this mean? Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:48:27 +1000 Message-ID: <3D2E6DAB.9050400@tpg.com.au> References: <3D2993E5.6030707@tpg.com.au> <20020708190923.A928@namesys.com> <3D29BA3F.7010201@tpg.com.au> <200207081228.56302.kuba@mareimbrium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Kuba Ober Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Kuba Ober wrote: >>I really do not know what is causing this every-5-seconds access. This >>is why I am trying to check the integrity of the fs as part of my >>exercise of finding the reason for the access. >> >> >This is normal and expected for your kernel version, AFAIK. Integrity of the >fs has nothing to do with it (alas, do maintain the integrity, please ;-) > >Cheers, Kuba Ober > > > I take the opporunity in this message to thank all who have responded to my queries as doing so will save me some typing :-). Re what you just said about this being "normal and expected for your kernel version, AFAIK" I need to say that this is the reason why I am querying this accessing because I don't believe that it is - and i'll give my reason in a minute. Firstly, I want to say that following advice from at least a couple of people I was able to work out (I am new to Linux so don't really know what I am doing) how to check the reiser fs on my system. It is fine, of course. I needed to have it checked out, though, because I had to eliminate this as a variable in my attempt to find out why my HD(s) is/are being accessed by something every 5 seconds. Please let me give a brief resume of why I am trying to find out why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds (actually it is also occurring on another computer at home and a friend's machine -- and all are running SuSE 8.0). I first asked this Q isn another forum and received the general reply that it all had to do with the reiser fs -- which I didn't really believe. Why? because I didn't recall having this "problem" when I was running SuSE v7.2 with reiser fs. But just to be sure I started doing some testing. I have another HD which I use for testing purposes and on this one I installed SuSE v7.2 undere reiserfs. There was no 5 second accessing on the HD. I then installed SuSE 8 with ext3 (because someone said that the 5 seconds-thingie only happened under reiser) - and I still got the 5 secs access. So, it wasn't confined to reiserfs. Following the comment in this forum that I can only run reiserfsck if the fs is not mounted or if I am in single-user mode, I went into single-user mode and guess what? As soon as one goes into single-user mode the 5 second accessing stops! Interesting, no? And just to add more interest to the whole epic, I decided to do another install of SuSE 8 under reiserfs on my test drive. I did an identical install as I made on my other 2 computers and --- you guessed it: this time there is NO 5 second accessing of the HD (on the test system)! So, that's the story, and I am still wondering why 3 systems runing SuSE 8 under reiserfs are having the HDs accessed every 5 seconds yet this does not occur on a (near identical) test system installed recently. Cheers.