From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inexplicable disk activity trying to load modules on devfs
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:10:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020617101034.GA23978@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020615172244.C19123@crack.them.org>
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I just booted into 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 for the first time, and noticed
> something very odd: my disk activity light was flashing at about
> half-second intervals, very regularly, and I could hear the disk
I have a similar problem with the popular 'dig' utility. Running 'dig 2>
/dev/null > /dev/null' suffices to cause disk activity, even when run many
times in succession.
As far as stracing can tell (dig is multithreaded), there is no reason for
this.
Regards,
bert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-17 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-15 22:22 Inexplicable disk activity trying to load modules on devfs Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-15 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-15 23:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-18 17:05 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-17 10:10 ` bert hubert [this message]
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2002-06-17 6:59 Borsenkow Andrej
2002-06-17 15:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-26 3:38 ` Richard Gooch
2002-06-26 22:03 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-19 0:22 ` Richard Gooch
2002-06-26 3:37 ` Richard Gooch
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