From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263260AbTJZQNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:13:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263262AbTJZQNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:13:11 -0500 Received: from 217-124-33-154.dialup.nuria.telefonica-data.net ([217.124.33.154]:55169 "EHLO dardhal.mired.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263260AbTJZQNJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:13:09 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:13:06 +0100 From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Heavy disk activity without apperant reason (added more info) Message-ID: <20031026161306.GA16723@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F9BC429.6060608@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F9BC429.6060608@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.0-test8-mm1)