Heavy disk activity without apperant reason

Heavy disk activity without apperant reason

[Stef van der Made]

On my AMD athlon system with 512MB memory I sometimes get a lot of disk 
activity the activity normaly lasts for about 10 seconds and after that 
the disk stays relativily quiet as expected with the load on the system. 
When I look into top I don't see any programs that could explain the 
disk activity. The system is in most cases not using any swap.

The system configuration is as following.

AMS athlon 1400
512MB main mem
18GB scsi disk 10K
29160 adaptec scsi controller
using a via kt2666 chipset

I'm not sure if I should log a bug and what the problem area could be.

Thanks in advance for helping out,

Stef

Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason

[Jose Luis Domingo Lopez]

On Saturday, 25 October 2003, at 23:56:59 +0200,
Stef van der Made wrote:

> I'm not sure if I should log a bug and what the problem area could be.
> 
You should provide more information before opening any bug, for example,
exact kernel version used, filesystems mounted and their types (as well
as mount options used). In older kernel 2.4.x versions there were
similar problems to the one you describe, related to (if I recall
correctly) writing the journal contents back to disk after heavy IO load.

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Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
Linux Registered User #189436     Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.0-test8-mm1)