From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Stef van der Made <svdmade@planet.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:15:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9E5DFA.2000008@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9D7120.1020207@planet.nl>
Stef van der Made wrote:
>
> Dear Helge,
>
> I had the very interesting disk activity again. No serious activity was
> happening. I've tried to make some sense of the 2 output commands you've
> asked, but they make not much sense. Sorry :-( that I need to ask so
> much help on this (bug) report.
>
> This is the output of vmstat
[...]
>From this we see that it isn't swapping (0 in the si and so
columns {"swap in" and "swap out"}).
The machine occationally reads, and it writes a lot.
> and this is top
>
dnetc is the most active process here. I don't know
what it _is_ - could it be doing lots of disk
writes?
mozilla is running, it may do a lot of disk
access under some circumstances, for example
when refreshing some webpage with lots
of content.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-28 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-26 12:55 Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info) Stef van der Made
2003-10-26 16:13 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-10-27 0:07 ` jw schultz
2003-10-27 12:12 ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-27 19:25 ` Stef van der Made
2003-10-28 12:15 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2003-10-28 14:22 ` Mike Dresser
2003-10-31 21:23 ` Stef van der Made
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